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Je vy ma Nymphe entre cent damoyselles, Comme un Croyssant par les menuz flambeaulx, Et de ses yeulx plus que les astres beaulx Faire obscurcir la beaulté des plus belles. Dedans son sein les graces immortelles, La Gaillardize, et les freres jumeaux, Alloyent vollant comme petitz oyseaux Par my le verd des branches plus nouvelles. Le ciel ravy, que [son chant esmouvoyt]1, Roses, et liz, et girlandes pleuvoyt Tout [au rond]2 d'elle au meillieu de la place: Si qu'en despit de l'hyver froydureux, Par la vertu de ses yeulx amoureux, Un beau printemps s'esclouit de sa face.
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View text without footnotes1 Bertrand: "si belle la void"
2 Bertrand: "autour"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [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 vy ma nymphe", 1576, published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1, no. 22 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Entre cent damoiselles", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 3ème volume, no. 9, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I can spot my Nymph", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 100
I can spot my Nymph among a hundred ladies Like the crescent moon among those lesser lights And with her eyes, fairer than the stars, Eclipsing the beauty of the loveliest. Within her breast the immortal graces, Jollity, and the twin brothers Fly like little birds Among the greenery of young branches. Delighted heaven [moved by her singing]1 Rains roses, lilies and garlands All round her in the middle of the place where she is So that, despite the freezing winter Through the virtue and power of her loving eyes A fair spring blossoms from her face.
Translator's note for stanza 2, line 2: The Gemini, Castor and Pollux, apparently invoked here as bringers of fair weather
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by David Wyatt, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 98