by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Translation by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940)
Genièvres hérissés, et vous, houx...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Genièvres hérissés, et vous, houx épineux L'un hôte des déserts, et l'autre d'un bocage ; Lierre, le tapis d'un bel antre sauvage, Sources qui bouillonnez d'un surgeon sablonneux ; Pigeons qui vous baisez d'un baiser savoureux Tourtres qui lamentez d'un éternel veuvage. Rossignols ramagers qui d'un plaisant langage Nuit et jour rechantez vos versets amoureux ; Vous, à la gorge rouge, étrangère arondelle. Si vous voyez [aller ma Nymphe]1 en ce printemps Pour cueillir des bouquets par cette herbe nouvelle, Dites-lui pour néant que sa grâce j'attends, Et que, pour ne souffrir le mal que j'ai pour elle, J'ai mieux aimé mourir que languir si longtemps.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Leguerney: "ma Nymphe aller"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Genièvres hérissés, et vous houx épineux", 1956 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elisabeth Claisse (flourished 1922-1923), "Complainte", 1923, published [1923] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Édition B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Genièvres hérissés", 1943, published 1950 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. I, no. 2, Editions Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Bristling junipers", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Humbert Wolfe) , no title, first published 1934
Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2011-06-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 104
You bristling junipers and hollies...
Language: English after the French (Français)
You bristling junipers and hollies spined, one friend to deserts, the others of the grove, ivy that doth the woodland altar bind, springs that shine upward from the sandy cove, pigeons in murmurous kisses sweetly twined, turtles that mourn their lost eternal love, nightingales in the bright language of your kind who night and day to amorous descant move, and you, with breast of crimson, migrant swallow, if you should see my lady walk in spring by the fresh lawns to gather flowers, say that all delight too long delayed is hollow, and rather than endure such suffering through all these years, I'd put the world away.
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Text Authorship:
- by Humbert Wolfe (1885 - 1940), no title, first published 1934 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2012-11-05
Line count: 14
Word count: 107