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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Ni les dédains d'une nimphe si belle
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ni les dédains d'une Nymfe si belle, 
Ni le plaisir de me fondre en langueur, 
Ni la fierté de sa douce rigueur, 
Ni contre amour sa chasteté rebelle : 

Ni le penser de trop penser en elle, 
Ni de mes yeux la fatale liqueur, 
Ni mes soupirs messagers de mon cœur, 
Ni de sa glace une ardeur éternelle : 

Ni le désir qui me lime et me mord, 
Ni voir écrite en ma face la mort, 
Ni les erreurs d’une longue complainte, 

Ne briseront mon cœur de diamant, 
Que sa beauté n’y soit tousjours emprainte : 
Belle fin fait qui meurt en bien aimant.  

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), appears in Les Amours (1552), first published 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), "Ni les dédains d'une nimphe si belle", published 1608 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 17, Paris, Pierre Ballard [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title unknown, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 101

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