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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.
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View original text (without footnotes)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
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 104
Take this rose, lovely as yourself, Who are like a rose beside the prettiest roses, Who are like a flower beside the freshest flowers, [Whose scent so entirely delights me]1. Take this rose, and with it accept Into your breast my heart, which has no wings: [It is constant, and a hundred deep wounds Have not stopped it from keeping faith with you]2. The rose and I, we differ in one way: One day sees the rose born and die But a thousasnd days have watched my love born [And it]3 will never die. But would to God that this love [you will not let me show Should, like a flower, have]4 lasted me but a day.
1 de Maletty: "Who are like a Muse to the Muses and to me"
2 de Maletty: "It lives, hurt by a hundred deep wounds/ Determined to keep the firmest faith with you"
3 de Maletty: "Which consumes me"
4 de Maletty: "blossoming / Like a flower, had"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in L'amour de Cassandre
This text was added to the website: 2012-07-25
Line count: 14
Word count: 117