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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Je voudroy bien richement jaunissant
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je voudroy bien richement jaunissant
En pluye d’or goute à goute descendre
Dans le giron de ma belle Cassandre,
Lors qu'en ses yeux le somne va glissant.

Puis je voudroy en toreau blanchissant
Me transformer pour sur mon dos la prendre,
Quand en Avril par l'herbe la plus tendre
Seule, à l'ecart, mille fleurs ravissant.

Je voudroy bien pour alleger ma peine,
Estre un Narcisse et elle une fontaine,
Pour m'y plonger une nuict à sejour :

Et si voudroy que ceste nuict encore
Fust eternelle, et que jamais l'Aurore
Pour m’esveiller ne rallumast le jour.

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•   G. Boni 

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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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Je voudroy bien richement jaunissant", published 1608 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 5, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Je voudrais bien, richement jaunissant", 1956 [ mixed chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Rudolf) Walther Hirschberg (1889 - 1960), "À Cassandre" [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Mélodies, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I wish that, in the rich yellow", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 97

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