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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Je suis tellement amoureux

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Je suis tellement amoureux,
Qu'au vray raconter je ne puis
Ny où je suis, ne qui je suis,
Ny combien je suis malheureux.

J'ay pour mon hoste nuict et jour,
Comme un tigre, un cruel esmoy
Qui va pratiquant dessus moy
Toutes les cruautez d'Amour.

Et si mon cœur ne peut s'armer
Contre l'œil qui le navre à tort :
Car, plus il me donne la mort,
Plus je suis contraint de l'aimer.

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• A. Bertrand • A. Pevernage

A. Pevernage sets lines 1-4

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Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Chanson" [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Je suis tellement amoureux", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Andries Pevernage (1542/3 - 1591), "Je suis tellement amoureux", lines 1-4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Jean de Castro.

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 12
Word count: 72

I am so in love

Language: English after the French (Français)

I am so in love
That truly I cannot tell you
Where I am, or who I am,
Or how unhappy I am.

I have as a guest night and day
A cruel agitation which, like a tiger
Practices on me
All the cruelties of love.

And yet my heart is so unable to arm itself
Against the eye which wrongly grieves it
For the more it pains me to death
The more I'm forced to love her.

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Chanson"
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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 78