by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Par ne sçay quelle estrange inimitié
Language: French (Français)
Par ne sçay quelle estrange inimitié
J’ai veu tomber mon esperance à terre,
Non de rocher, mais tendre comme verre
Et mes desirs rompre par la moytié.
Dame, où le Ciel logea mon amytié,
Pour un flateur qui si lachement erre,
Et pourquoy tant me brasses-tu de guerre,
Privant mon cœur de ta douce pitié !
Or s’il te plaist, fay moy languir en peine :
Tant que la mort me desnerve et desveine
Je seray tien. Et plus-tost le Caos
Se troublera de sa noise ancienne,
Qu’autre beauté qu’autre amour que la tienne,
Sous autre joug me captive le dos.
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Through some strange enmity
Language: English after the French (Français)
Through some strange enmity
I saw my hope fall to earth,
Not like a rock but fragile like glass,
And half-shatter my desires.
My Lady, in whom heaven placed my love,
Why then for a flatterer who so crudely errs
Do you stir me up so much in war
Depriving my heart of your sweet pity?
Well, if you wish, make me languish in pain;
Until death un-nerves and un-veins me
I shall be yours. Sooner will Chaos
Take up again his ancient quarrel
Than another beauty, another love than yours
Will take my back captive beneath its yoke.
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This text was added to the website: 2017-02-17
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