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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Au milieu de la guerre, en un siecle...
Language: French (Français) 
Au milieu de la guerre, en un siecle sans foy,
Entre mille procez, est-ce pas grand folie
D'escrire de l'Amour? De manotes on lie
Des fols, qui ne sont pas si furieux que moy.

Grison et maladif r'entrer dessous la loy
D'Amour, ô quelle erreur! Dieux, mercy je vous crie.
Tu ne m'es plus Amour, tu m'es une Furie,
Qui me rends fol, enfant, et sans yeux comme toy:

Voir perdre mon pays, proye des adversaires,
Voir en noz estendars les fleurs de liz contraires,
Voir une Thebaïde, et faire l'amoureux.

Je m'en vais au Palais: adieu vieilles Sorcieres.
Muses, je prens mon sac, je seray plus heureux
En gaignant mes procez, qu'en suivant voz rivieres.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, written 1572 ?, appears in Le Second Livre des Sonnets pour Hélène, no. 65 [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 André Bon (b. 1947), "Au milieu de la guerre", 2000 [ baritone and piano ], from Les guerres du poète, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 116

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