J'ai grand désir

J'ai grand désir
D'avoir plaisir
D'amour mondaine :
Mais c'est grand peine,
Car chaque loyal amoureux
Au temps présent est malheureux :
Et le plus fin
Gagne à la fin
La grâce pleine.

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Authorship

• by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544), no title, appears in L'adolescence Clémentine, in Chansons, no. 28 [ author's text checked 1 time]

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

• by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "J'ai grand désir", 2008. [medium voice and piano] [ sung text not verified ]

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