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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme,
A deux beaux yeux montrer à nud son coeur,
Boire tousjours d'une amere liqueur,
Manger tousjours d'une amertume extrème, 
 
Avoir la face et triste, et morne, et bleme,
Plus soupirer moins fléchir la rigueur,
Mourir d'ennuy receler sa langueur,
Du vueil d'autruy des loix faire à soy mesme ;
 
Un court despit, une aimantine foy
Aimer trop mieux son ennemy que soy,
Peindre en ses yeux mille vaines figures :

Vouloir parler et n'oser respirer,
Esperer tout et se desesperer,
Sont de ma mort les plus certains augures.

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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), "Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme", published 1607 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 2, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "千百次思虑一样的思想", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more", 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: 96

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