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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Je voudrois estre Ixion et Tantale
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je voudrois estre Ixion et Tantale,
Dessus la rouë et dans les eaux là bas,
[Et nu à nu]1 presser entre mes bras
Ceste beauté qui les anges égale.

S'ainsi estoit, toute peine fatale
Me seroit [douce]2 et ne me chaudroit pas,
Non, d'un vautour fussé-je le repas,
Non, qui le roc remonte et redevale.

Luy tastonner seulement le tetin,
[Ce seul plaisir changeroit]3 mon destin
Au sort meilleur des princes de l'Asie :

Un demy-dieu me feroit son baiser,
Et flanc à flanc [mon feu desembraser]4,
Un [de ceux-là]5 qui mangent l'ambroisie.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Bertrand •   J. de Maletty 

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Confirmed with Oeuvres complètes de P. de Ronsard, Nouvelle Édition, Tome I, Paris, Chez P. Jannet, 1857, pages 26-27.

1 Maletty: "Et quelquefois"
2 Maletty: "doux"
3 Maletty: "Et changeroit l'obscur de"; Bertrand: "A descouvert, changeroit"
4 Bertrand, Maletty: "entre ses bras m'aiser"
5 Bertrand: "des grands Dieux"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Les Amours (1553), no. 4, first published 1553 [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 voudrois estre Ixion et Tantale", 1576, published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jean de Maletty (flourished 16th century), "Je voudrois estre Ixion et Tantale" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 98

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