Je ne saurois aimer autre que vous, Non, Dame, non, je ne saurois le faire: Autre que vous ne me sauroit complaire, Et fust Venus descendue entre nous. Vos yeus me sont si gracieus et dous, Que d'un seul clin ils me peuvent defaire, D'un autre clin tout soudain me refaire, Me faisans vivre ou mourir en deux coups. Quand je serois cinq cens mille ans en vie, Autre que vous, ma mignonne [m'amie]1, Ne me feroit amoureus devenir. Il me faudroit refaire d'autres venes, Les miennes sont de vostre amour si plenes, Qu'un autre amour n'y sauroit plus tenir.
J. Castro sets lines 1-8
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bertrand: "ma vie"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Continuation des Amours, no. 28, first published 1555 [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Je ne saurais aimer autre que vous", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean de Castro (c1540 - c1600), "Je ne saurois aymer autre que vous", lines 1-8 [sung text checked 2 times]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), [adaptation] ; composed by Louis Théodore Gouvy.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949) and by Clemens Krauss (1893 - 1954) ; composed by Richard Georg Strauss.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "I wouldn't know how to love any but you", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 103
Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht, Nein, Schöne, nichts auf dieser ganzen Erde, Kein andres, das ich so wie dich begehrte, Und käm' von Venus mir ein Angebot. Dein Auge beut mir himmlisch-süsse Not, Und wenn ein Aufschlag alle Qual vermehrte, Ein andrer Wonne mir und Lust gewährte, - Zwei Schläge sind dann Leben oder Tod. Und trüg' ich's fünfmalhunderttausend Jahre, Erhielte ausser dir, du Wunderbare, Kein andres Wesen über mich Gewalt. Durch neue Adern müsst' mein Blut ich giessen, In meinen, voll von dir zum Überfliessen, Fänd' neue Liebe weder Raum noch Halt.
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Clemens Krauss (1893 - 1954) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Continuation des Amours, no. 28, first published 1555
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht", op. 85, first performed 1942, from opera Capriccio, ein "Konversationsstück für Musik" [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Linda Godry) , "Nothing blazes in my heart like this", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2006-10-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 95