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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Prends cette rose aimable comme toi
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Prends cette rose aimable comme toi,
Qui sers de rose aux roses les plus belles,
Qui sers de fleur aux fleurs les plus nouvelles,
[Dont la senteur me ravit tout de moi]1.

Prends cette rose, et ensemble reçoi
Dedans ton sein mon cœur qui n'a point d'ailes : 
[Il est constant, et cent plaies cruelles
N'ont empêché qu'il ne gardât sa foi]2.

La rose et moi différons d'une chose :
Un soleil voit naître et mourir la rose ;
[Mille]3 soleils ont vu naître m'amour,

[Dont l'action jamais ne se repose.
Ha ! plût à Dieu que telle amour, éclose]4,
Comme une [fleur]5, ne m'eût duré qu'un jour.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Gouvy •   J. de Maletty 

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Confirmed with Chefs d'oeuvre poétiques de Marot, Ronsard, J. Du Bellay, d'Aubigné et Regnier, Paris, Hachette, 1896, pages 78-79.

1 de Maletty: "Qui sers de Muse aux Muses et à moy"
2 de Maletty: "Il vit blessé de cent plaies cruelles/ Opiniastr’ à garder trop de foy"
3 Gouvy: "Et mille"
4 Gouvy: "Ah ! je voudrais que telle amour enclose/ Dans ce cœur qui jamais ne repose" ; de Maletty: "Qui me consomme et jamais nere pose./ Que plût à Dieu que telle amour esclose"
5 Gouvy: "pauvre fleur"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in L'amour de Cassandre  [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 Ina Bottelier (b. 1943), "Prends cette rose aimable", published 2001, copyright © 1992 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Quatre Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2, Heiloo (Hollande / Netherlands), Éd. Nieuwe Lente/Red Frog Music [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Prends cette rose", op. 41 (Neuf Poésies de Ronsard) no. 2, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Léon Jules Alexandre Lepot (1844 - 1896), as Léon Delahaye, "Prends cette rose", published [1884] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean de Maletty (flourished 16th century), "Pren ceste rose aymable comme toy" [sung text checked 1 time]

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) , "Take this rose", 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: 2011-06-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 113

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