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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Comment au départir, adieu pourrais‑je...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Comment au départir, adieu pourrais-je dire
Duquel le souvenir tant seulement me pâme,
Adieu [ma chère vie, adieu ma seconde âme]1,
Adieu mon cher souci, par qui seul je soupire:
Adieu le bel [objet, adieu mon doux]2 martyre,
Adieu bel oeil divin qui m'en glace et m'enflamme,
Adieu ma douce [glace]3, adieu ma douce flamme,
Adieu par qui je vis et par qui je respire.
Adieu, belle humble bonnête et gentille maîtresse,
Adieu les doux liens où vous m'avez tenu
Maintenant en travail, maintenant en liesse:
Il est temps de partir, le jour en est venu:
Mais avant que partir je vous supplie en lieu
De moi prendre mon coeur, tenez, je vous le laisse,
[Voile-la]4, baisez-moi maîtresse, et puis adieu.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Boni •   P. Cléreau 

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1 Cléreau: "donc chère vie, adieu donc ma chère âme"
2 Cléreau: "objet de mon plaisant"
3 Cléreau: "vie"
4 Boni: "Voy le là"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Comment au départir", published 1608 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 9, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Pierre Cléreau (c1515 - 1569), "Comment au départir" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Paul-Jean-Jacques Lacôme d'Estalenx (1838 - 1920), "Adieu" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "How on parting", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 128

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