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Voulant, ô ma douce moitié, T'assurer que mon amitié Ne se verra jamais [finie, Je fis, pour t'en assurer]1 mieux Un serment juré par mes yeux Et par mon cœur et par ma vie. Tu jures ce qui n'est à toi ; Ton cœur et tes yeux sont à moi D'une promesse irrévocable, Ce médis-tu. [Hélas ! au moins]2 Reçoit mes larmes pour témoins Que ma parole est véritable ! Alors, Belle, tu me baisas, Et doucement désattisas [Mon feu, d'un gracieux visage :]3 Puis tu fis signe de ton œil, Que tu recevais bien mon deuil Et mes larmes pour témoignage.
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View text without footnotes1 Strong: "faillie,/ Je te fis pour l’assurer"
2 Strong: "Las ! pour les moins"
3 Strong: "Le feu qui brûle mon courage,"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Chanson" [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 Guido Spinetti (1850 - 1931), "Voulant, ô ma douce moitié", published 1897 [ medium voice and piano ], from Treize poésies de Ronsard, mises en musique par Guido Spinetti, et ornées par Lucien Métivet de vignettes modernes dans le goût ancien, préface de Francisque Sarcey, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Flammarion [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "Voulant, ô ma douce moitié", copyright © 1929 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Genève, Édition Henn [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-12-06
Line count: 18
Word count: 102
Wanting, my sweet other half, To assure you that my love Would never come to an end, I made to better assure you of it A vow sworn on my eyes And my heart and my life. But you swore by what you don’t have : Your heart and eyes are mine By an irrevocable promise - You lied about that. Alas, then at least Accept my tears as witness That my word is truthful. Then, my fair one, you kissed me And sweetly un-kindled My fire with your gracious face; And then you made me a sign with your eye That you indeed accepted my grief And my tears as a witness.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Chanson"
This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 18
Word count: 111