Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more | Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme,
A deux beaux yeux montrer à nud son coeur,
Boire tousjours d'une amere liqueur,
Manger tousjours d'une amertume extrème, 
 
Avoir la face et triste, et morne, et bleme,
Plus soupirer moins fléchir [la]¹ rigueur,
Mourir d'ennuy receler sa langueur,
Du vueil d'autruy [des loix faire]² à soy mesme ;
 
Un court despit, une aimantine foy
Aimer trop mieux son ennemy que soy,
Peindre en ses yeux mille vaines figures :

Vouloir parler et n'oser respirer,
Esperer tout et se desesperer,
Sont de ma mort les plus certains augures.

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• G. Boni

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¹ Boni: "sa"
² Boni: "faire loy"

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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme", published 1607 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 2, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "千百次思虑一样的思想", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 96

Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more

Language: English after the French (Français)

Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more,
Showing your heart, naked, to two lovely eyes,
Having always to drink a bitter drink,
And always having to eat extreme bitterness,
 
Your face being sad and dreary and pale
Sighing more and turning aside her harshness less,
Dying of waiting and accepting pining,
Making of another’s wishes a law for yourself;
 
A brief jealousy and a lasting love,
Preferring your enemy to yourself,
Wearing in your eyes a thousand wasted expressions;

Wanting to talk, but not daring to breathe
Hoping for everything but losing hope for yourself,
These are the most certain omens of my death.

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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
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Word count: 106