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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Voicy le bois
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Voici le bois que ma sainte Angelette
Sur le printemps réjouit de son chant :
Voici les fleurs où son pied va marchant
Quand à soi-même elle pense seulette.

Voici la prée et la rive mollette,
Qui prend vigueur de sa main la touchant
Quand pas à pas en son sein va cachant
Le bel émail de l’herbe nouvelette.

Ici chanter, là pleurer je la vis,
Ici sourire, et là je fus ravi
De ses discours par lesquels je desvie :

Ici s’asseoir, là je la vis danser :
Sur le métier d’un si vague penser,
Amour ourdit les trames de ma vie.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Gouvy 

L. Gouvy sets lines 1-4, 5-8, 9, 12, 10-11, 13-14

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Confirmed with Choix de poésies (Ronsard), Paris, Didot, 1862.


Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [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 Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Voicy le bois", op. 41 (Neuf Poésies de Ronsard) no. 4, published 1876, lines 1-4,5-8,9,12,10-11,13-14 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 4, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "这是树林", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Here is the wood", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 105

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