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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Pourtant si j’ay le chef plus blanc
Language: French (Français) 
Pourtant si j’ay le chef plus blanc
Que n’est d’un liz la fleur esclose.
Et toy le visage plus franc
Que n’est le bouton d’une rose :
Pour cela, cruelle, il ne faut
Fuyr ainsi ma teste blanche :

Si j’ay la teste blanche en haut,
J’ay en bas la queue assez franche.
Ne sçais-tu pas, toy qui me fuis,
Que pour bien faire une couronne
Ou quelque beau bouquet, d’un lis
Tousjours la rose on environne ?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Les Odes, no. 30 [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 Nicolas Chevereau (b. 1989), "Pourtant si j'ay le chef plus blanc", published 2014 [ baritone and piano ], from Quatre poèmes de Ronsard pour baryton et piano, no. 3, Éd. du compositeur [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2019-04-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 75

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