Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi
Plus tu me [fuis]1, cruelle
Plus tu connais que je vis en émoi
Et plus tu m'es rebelle
[Te laisserai-je ? hélas !]2 je suis [trop tien,
Mais]3 je bénirai l'heure
de mon trépas : au moins s'il te plaist bien
qu'en te servant je meure.

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¹ Janequin, Goudimel, Millot, Sweelinck, Utendal: "hais"
² Janequin, Goudimel, Millot, Sweelinck, Utendal: "Mais c'est tout un : car las !"
³ Caietain, Janequin, Goudimel, Millot, Sweelinck, Utendal: "tant tien,/ Que"

Text Authorship:

• by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Fabrice-Marin Caietain (flourished 1570-1578), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Claude Goudimel (c1514 - 1572), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Chanson de Ronsard", H. 54 (1924) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Clement Janequin (c1495 - c1560), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nicolas Millot (d. c1590), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Chanson", 1963, copyright © 1980, first performed 1965 [ medium voice and flute ], from Cinq Mélodies sur des poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alexander Utendal (1543?5 - 1581), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Chanson", 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 1, Éd. Maurice Senart [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) , "Song of Ronsard", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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