A chaste fire which rules in my soul | A chaste fire which rules in my soul

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Un chaste feu qui en l'ame domine

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Un chaste feu qui en l'ame domine
Un or frisé de meint crespe anelet,
Un front de rose, un teint damoiselet,
Un ris qui l'ame aux Astres achemine :

Une vertu de telles graces digne,
Un col de neige, une gorge de lait,
Un coeur ja meur en un sein verdelet,
En Dame humaine une beauté divine :

Un oeil puissant de faire jours les nuis,
Une main douce à piller les ennuis,
Qui tient ma vie en ses dois enfermée :

Avec un chant decoupé doucement,
Or' d'un souris, or' d'un gemissement :
De tels sorciers ma raison fut charmée.

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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), "Un chaste feu qui en l'ame domine", published 1608 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 21, Paris, Pierre Ballard [
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ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "A chaste fire which rules in my soul", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-03-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 97

A chaste fire which rules in my soul

Language: English after the French (Français)

A chaste fire which rules in my soul,
The curled gold of so many ringlets
A rosy brow, a maiden's hue,
A smile which carries my soul to the stars :

A virtue worthy of such graces
A snowy neck, a milk-white throat,
A heart already ripe in a youthful breast
In a human Lady, a divine beauty :

An eye with the power to make nights into days,
A soft hand to steal cares away,
Which holds my life enclosed in its fingers :

With a song softly ending,
By a smile, by a sigh :
By such sorcery my reason has been charmed.

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This text was added to the website: 2015-03-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 101