by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Ni de son chef le tresor crépelu
Language: French (Français)
Ni de son chef le tresor crépelu,
Ni de sa joüe une et l'autre fossette,
Ni l'embonpoint de sa gorge grassette,
Ni son menton rondement fosselu,
Ni son bel oeil que les miens ont voulu
Choisir pour prince à mon ame sugette,
Ni son beau sein, dont l'Archerot me gette
Le plus agu de son trait émoulu,
Ni de son ris les miliers de Charites,
Ni ses beautés en mile cœurs écrites,
N'ont esclavé ma libre affection.
Seul son esprit, où tout le ciel abonde,
Et les torrens de sa douce faconde,
Me font mourir pour sa perfection.
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Not the curly treasure of her head", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Not the curly treasure of her head
Language: English after the French (Français)
Not the curly treasure of her head,
Not the one or other dimple in her cheek,
Not the swell of her plump throat,
Not her chin, round and dimpled,
Not her lovely eye which my own wanted
To select as ruler of my subjected soul,
Not her lovely breast, for which the Little Archer shot me
With the sharpest point of his sharpened weapons,
Not the thousand gifts of her smile,
Not her beauty inscribed in a thousand hearts --
All these have not enslaved my free affections.
Only her spirit, in which all heaven abounds
And the streams of her sweet chatter
Make me die for her perfection.
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