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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Douce beauté à qui je doy la vie
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Douce beauté à qui je doy la vie,
Le cœur, le corps, et le sang, et l’esprit,
Voyant tes yeux Amour mesme m’aprit
Toute vertu que [depuis j’ai]1 suivie
 
Mon cueur, ardant d’une amoureuse envie,
Si vivement de tes graces s’éprit
Que d’un regard de tes yeux il comprit,
Que peut honneur, amour et courtoisie.
 
L’homme [est] de plomb, ou bien il n’a point d’ieux,
Si te voyant il ne voit tous les cieux
En ta beauté qui n’a point de seconde.
 
Ta bonne grace un rocher retiendroit :
Et quand sans jour le monde deviendroit,
Ton œil si beau seroit le jour du monde.

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•   A. Bertrand 

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1 Bertrand: "j'ai depuis"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Elegies 1565, first published 1565 [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?), "Douce beauté à qui je dois la vie", published 1578 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 24 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Douce beauté à qui je dois la vie", published 1608 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 6, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 105

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