La tomba | Quan el cel i la meva hora

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Le Tombeau

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER

Quand le ciel et mon heure
jugeront que je meure,
ravi du beau séjour
        du commun jour,
je défends qu'on ne rompe
le marbre pour la pompe
de vouloir mon tombeau
        bâtir plus beau,
mais bien je veux qu'un arbre
m'ombrage en lieu d'un marbre,
arbre qui soit couvert
        tojours de vert.
De moi puisse la terre
engendrer un lierre
m'embrassant en maint tour
        tout à l'entour;
et la vigne tortisse
mon sépulcre embellisse,
Faisant de toutes parts
        un ombre épars.

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [author's text not yet checked 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Le Tombeau", FP 38 no. 2 (1924), published 1925 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La tomba", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "The tomb", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die Grabstätte", 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: 20
Word count: 86

La tomba

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

Quan el cel i la meva hora
decidiran que he de morir,
arrabassat del bell sojorn
        del dia corrent,
prohibeixo que ningú parteixi
el marbre per a la pompa
de voler construir la meva tomba
       més bella,
sinó que més aviat vull que un arbre
em faci ombra en lloc d’un marbre,
un arbre que sempre
       estigui cobert de verd.
Que de mi pugui la terra
engendrar una heura
que m'embolcalli amb moltes voltes
        tot a l’entorn;
i que la parra entrellaçant-se
embelleixi el meu sepulcre,
fent una ombra dispersa
       a tot el voltant.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2026 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-05-23
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Word count: 94