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possibly by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Las ! cettui jour, pourquoi l'ai‑je dû...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Las ! cettui jour, pourquoi l'ai-je dû voir,
Puisque ses yeux allaient ardre mon âme ?
Doncques, Amour, faut-il que par ta flamme
Soit transmué notre heur en désespoir !

Si on savait d'aventure prévoir
Ce que vient lors, plaints, poinctures et blâmes ;
Si fraîche fleur évanouir son bâme
Et que tel jour fait éclore tel soir ;

Si on savait la fatale puissance,
Que vite aurais échappé sa présence !
Sans tarder plus, que vite l'aurais fui !

Las, Las ! que dis-je ? Ô si pouvait renaître
Ce jour tant doux où je le vis paraître,
Oisel léger, comme j'irais à lui !

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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), "Sonnet de la belle cordière", uncollected [author's text checked 1 time 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 Olivier Penard (b. 1974), "Las ! cettui jour, pourquoi l'ai-je dû voir", op. 10 no. 3 (2000), published 2001 [ soprano, string quartet, piano ], from Nécessités de la douleur, no. 3, Édition Jobert [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2018-02-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 96

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