Green (1)

Green (1) Debussy's setting (1886, rev. 1903, Ariettes oubliées, #5) for voice and piano of the first poem in the Aquarelles (Watercolors) section of Romances sans paroles (1874) by Verlaine. The poem was written in the autumn of 1872 during Verlaine's »escape« to England with Rimbaud, hence the English title. The succession of images: fruit, flowers, leaves and branches, represent the four seasons all at once, or the magnificent impossibility of the gifts the lover has gathered. The song was…