by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
O Dieux que j’ay de plaisir
Language: French (Français)
O Dieux ! que j’ay de plaisir
Quand je sen mon col saisir
De ses bras en mainte sorte,
Sur moy se laissant courber
Peu à peu la voy tomber
Dans mon sain à demy morte.
D’un baiser doucement long,
El’ me suce l’ame adonc
Puis en soufflant la repousse,
La ressuce encore un coup,
La resouffle tout à coup,
Avec son alaine douce.
Helas ! mais tempere un peu
Les biens dont je suis repeu,
Tempere un peu ma liesse.
Dieu ! je seroys immortel,
Et je ne veux estre tel,
Si tu n’es aussi déesse.
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O gods ! what pleasure I get
Language: English after the French (Français)
O gods ! what pleasure I get
When I feel my neck seized
By her arms so very often,
Letting herself curve on me
Little by little I see her fall
On my breast half-dead.
With a sweet long kiss
She sucks out my soul so,
Then breathing out she pushes it back,
Sucks it out once again,
Breathes it back all at once
With her sweet breath.
Oh, moderate a little
The good things on which I am fed,
Moderate my happiness a little!
God, I’ll become immortal -
But I don’t want to be
Unless you are also a goddess.
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