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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Une beauté de quinze ans enfantine
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Une beauté de quinze ans enfantine,
Un or frisé de maint crêpe anelet,
Un front de rose, un teint damoiselet,
Un ris qui l'âme aux Astres achemine ;

Une vertu de telles beautés digne,
Un col de neige, une gorge de lait,
Un coeur jà mûr en un sein verdelet,
En Dame humaine une beauté divine ;

Un oeil puissant de faire jours les nuits,
Une main douce à forcer les ennuis,
Qui tient ma vie en ses doigts enfermée

Avec un chant découpé doucement
Ore d'un ris, or' d'un gémissement,
De tels sorciers ma raison fut charmée.

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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 Ina Bottelier (b. 1943), "Une beauté de quinze ans enfantine", published 2001, copyright © 1992 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Quatre Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 3, Heiloo (Hollande / Netherlands), Éd. Nieuwe Lente/Red Frog Music [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Une beauté de quinze ans enfantine", 1957 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-10-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 96

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