Sur un chapelet de roses | Tu m'as faict un chappeau de roses

Sur un chapelet de roses

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Tu m'as faict un chappeau de roses,
Qui semblent tes deux levres closes,
Et de lis freschement cueillis,
Qui semblent tes beaux doigts polis,
Les liant d'un fil d'or ensemble,
Qui à tes blonds cheveux ressemble.

Mais si jeune tu entendois
L'ouvrage, qu'ont tyssu tes doigts,
Tu serois, peult estre, plus sage
A prevoir ton futur dommage.

Ces roses plus ne rougiront,
Et ces lis plus ne blanchiront :
La fleur des ans, qui peu sejourne,
S'en fuit, et jamais ne retourne :
Etle fil te monstre combien
La vie est un fragile bien.

Pourquoy donc m'es-tu si rebelle ?
Mais pourquoy t'es-tu si cruelle ?
Si tu n'as point pitié de moy,
Ayes au moins pitié de toy.

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Confirmed with Joachim du Bellay, Divers Jeux Rustiques et autres œuvres poétiques, Paris: E. Sansot & C

Note: in the original publication, the text Du mesme Bembe (i.e., "Of the same Bembe") is printed after the poem's title. This is a reference to the comment Du Bembe that follows the title of the previous poem in the collection. The "Bembe" in question is Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), called "Pierre Bembe" in du Bellay's writings. Bembo was one of the first Italian proponents of vernacular (as opposed to Latin) poetry.

Text Authorship:

by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560), "Sur un chapelet de roses", appears in Divers Jeux Rustiques, no. 26 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Louis Beydts (1896 - 1953), "Sur un chapelet de roses" [ voice and piano ], from Jeux rustiques, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Tricot (1926 - 2009), "Sur un chapelet de roses" [ soprano and piano ], from Mélodies, recueil 1, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]

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

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