Ode, in Anacreon's style | As long as this lovely month lasts

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Cependant que ce beau mois dure

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Cependant que ce beau mois dure, 
Mignonne, allons sur la verdure, 
Ne laissons perdre en vain le temps; 
L'âge glissant qui ne s'arrête, 
Mêlant le poil de notre tête, 
S'enfuit ainsi que le printemps. 
Donc, cependant que notre vie 
Et le temps d'aimer nous convie, 
Aimons, moissonnons nos désirs, 
Passons l'amour de veine en veine; 
Incontinent la mort prochaine 
Viendra dérober nos plaisirs.

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Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in L'inspiration anacréontique , no. 10 [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 Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Ode anacréontique", 1947, published 1986, first performed 1947 [voice and piano], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. III, no. 2, Éditions Max Eschig [
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ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Ode, in Anacreon's style", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

Ode, in Anacreon's style

Language: English after the French (Français)

As long as this lovely month lasts
My darling, let's walk on the grass,
Let's not waste our time in vain:
Age, slipping up on us and never stopping
Greying the hair of our heads
Flies by like the spring.
So as long as our lives
And the time for loving urge us,
Let's love, let's reap the harvest of our desires,
Let's pass our love from vein to vein.
Hasty death will soon
Come to steal away our pleasures.

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in L'inspiration anacréontique , no. 10
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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 80