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Les épis sont à Cérès, Aux [Dieux bouquins]1 les forêts, À Chlore l'herbe nouvelle, À Phoebus le vert laurier, À Minerve l'olivier, Et le beau pin à Cybèle ; Au Zéphires le doux bruit, À Pomone le doux fruit, L'onde aux Nymphes est sacrée, À Flore les belles fleurs ; Mais les soucis et les pleurs Sont sacrés à Cythèrée.
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View text without footnotes1 Schmitt, Strong: "chèvre-pieds"
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 Frank Martin (1890 - 1974), "Ode", published 1931 [ chorus ], from Chansons [First set], no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Attributs", FP 38 no. 1 (1924), published 1925 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 1, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), "Privilèges", op. 100 no. 2 (1942), published 1942 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "Les épis sont à Cérès", subtitle: "Pastoral", 1924 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], confirmed with the manuscript [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Attributes", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English ((Edward) Robert Bulwer-Lytton) , "Les espices sont a Ceres"
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 59
Der Ceres Ähren, Wälder den [Satyrn]1, Chloris das frische Gras, Phoebus den Lorbeer, grün, den Ölbaum der Minerva, die schöne Pinie der Kybele; das leise Säuseln den Zephyren, Pomona süßes Obst, die Wasser sind geweiht den Nymphen, Flora, die schönen Blüten; doch Herzeleid und Tränen der auf Kythira Gebornen*.
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View text without footnotesTranslation of title "Attributs" = "Attribute"
1 Schmitt: "Bocksfüße"
Note: Kythira = Aphrodite.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2017 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
This text was added to the website: 2017-06-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 51