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Ce beau corail, ce marbre qui souspire Et cest’ ébesne, ornement du sourcy Et cest’ albastre en voute racourcy Et cest zaphirs, ce jaste et ce porphyre : Ces diamans, ces rubis, qu’un zéphire Tient animez d’un soupir adoucy, Et ces oeilles, et ces roses aussy, Et ce fin or, où l’or mesme se mire Me sont au coeur en si profond esmoy, Qu’un autre objet ne se présente à moy, Sinon, Belleau, leur beauté que j’honore. Et le plaisir qui ne se peut passer De les songer, penser et repenser, Songer, penser et repenser encore.
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Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Ce beau corail, ce marbre qui souspire", appears in Les Amours (1552) [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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Ce beau corail", published 1608 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 4, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 95
That fair coral, that breathing marble, And that ebony ornament of her brow, And that alabaster in its brief arch, And those sapphires, that jasper and that porphyry; Those diamonds, those rubies, which a Zephyr [breeze] Keeps in motion with its gentle breath; And those pinks and roses too, And that fine gold, at which gold itself wonders; These are in my heart in such deep excitement That no other object presents itself to me, Except, Belleau, their beauty which I honour And the pleasure which cannot pass Of dreaming of them, considering and reconsidering them Dreaming, considering and reconsidering them again.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Ce beau corail, ce marbre qui souspire", appears in Les Amours (1552)
This text was added to the website: 2014-08-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 102