D'Anne qui me jecta de la neige

Anne par jeu me jecta de la neige
Que je cuidoys froide certainement:
Mais c'estoit feu, l'expérience en ay-je
Car embrasé je fuz soubdainement
Puisque le feu loge secretement
Dedans la neige, où trouveray-je place
Pour n'ardre point? Anne, ta seule grâce
Estaindre peut le feu que je sens bien
Non point par eau, par neige, ne par glace,
Mais par sentir ung feu pareil au mien.

Translation(s): ENG

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Authorship

• by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "D'Anne qui me jecta de la neige", M. 21 no. 1 (1899), published 1900, first performed 1900 [voice and harpsichord or piano], from Épigrammes de Clément Marot, no. 1. [ sung text verified 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Carl Johengen) , title 1: "To Anne who threw snow at me", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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To Anne who threw snow at me

 Anne in fun threw snow at me
 which I found cold for certain:
 but it was fire, the experience I had
 for suddenly I was caressed
 So, as fire secretly dwells
 within the snow, where can I find a place
 that does not burn? Anne, only your kindness
 can extinguish the fire which consumes me
 not with water, snow, or ice,
 But with a fire like unto my own.

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• a text in French (Français) by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544)
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Maurice Ravel. Go to the text.

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.