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Voici le bois que ma sainte Angelette Sur le printemps réjouit de son chant : Voici les fleurs où son pied va marchant Quand à soi-même elle pense seulette. Voici la [prée et la]1 rive mollette, Qui [prend vigueur]2 de sa main la touchant Quand pas à pas en son sein va cachant Le bel émail de l’herbe nouvelette. Ici chanter, là pleurer je la vis, Ici sourire, et là je fus ravi [De ses discours par lesquels je desvie :]3 Ici [s’asseoir, là je la vis]4 danser : Sur le métier d’un si vague penser, Amour ourdit les trames de ma vie.
L. Gouvy sets lines 1-4, 5-8, 9, 12, 10-11, 13-14
Confirmed with Choix de poésies (Ronsard), Paris, Didot, 1862.
1 Gouvy: "prée, la"2 Gouvy: "reverdit"
3 Gouvy: "Des discours de mon amie."
4 Gouvy: "s'asseoir et là"
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 Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Voicy le bois", op. 41 (Neuf Poésies de Ronsard) no. 4, published 1876, lines 1-4,5-8,9,12,10-11,13-14 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 4, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "这是树林", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Here is the wood", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 105
Here is the wood which my holy angel Makes happy during the spring with her singing; Here are the flowers where her feet pass When she is thinking to herself, on her own. Here is the meadow and the languid riverbank Which gain vigour from her hand as they touch it, As step by step she walks, hiding in her bosom The lovely jewels of the new-grown grass. Here I see her singing, there weeping, Here smiling, and there I was delighted By her diverting conversation: Here I see her sitting, there dancing; On the loom of such wandering thoughts Love weaves the threads of my life.
Text Authorship:
- 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: 2012-07-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 107