Marie, your cheek is the crimson | Marie, your cheek is the crimson

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Marie vous avez la joue aussi vermeille

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

[Marie]¹ vous avez la joue aussi vermeille
Qu'une rose de may ; vous avez les cheveux
De couleur de chastaigne, entrefrisez de nœuds,
Gentement tortillez tout autour de l'oreille.

Quand vous estiez petite, une mignarde abeille
Sur vos lèvres forma son nectar savoureux,
Amour laissa ses traits dans vos yeux rigoureux,
Pithon vous fit la voix à nulle autre [pareille]² 

Vous avez [les tetins]³ comme deux monts de lait,
Qui pommelent ainsi qu'au printemps nouvelet
Pommelent deux boutons que leur châsse environne.

De Junon sont vos bras, des Graces vostre sein ;
Vous avez de l'Aurore et le front et la main,
Mais vous avez le cœur d'une fiere Lionne.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Boni • J. de Maletty

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¹ Boni: "Mignonne"
² Boni: "seconde"
³ Maletty: "le tetin"

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), "Mignonne vous avez la jouë aussi vermeille", published 1607 [vocal quartet], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 8, Paris, Pierre Ballard [ sung text verified 1 time]
by Jean de Maletty (flourished 16th century), "Marie vous avez la joue aussi vermeille" [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Marie, your cheek is the crimson", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-02-27
Line count: 14
Word count: 111

Marie, your cheek is the crimson

Language: English after the French (Français)

[Marie]¹, your cheek is the crimson
Of a rose in May, your hair
The colour of chestnut, twisted with curls,
Nobly wound all about your ears.

When you were small, a delightful bee
Made his tasty nectar upon your lips;
Love left his darts in your severe eyes,
Python made your voice unequalled by any other.

Your breasts are like two milky mounds
Which bloom like, in early spring,
Two buds which surround a shrine.

Your arms come from Juno, your bust from the Graces,
You have the Dawn's brow and hand,
But you have the heart of a proud lioness.

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¹ Boni: "Darling"

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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-27
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Word count: 103