by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Si mille oeillets, si mille liz...
Language: French (Français)
Si mille oeillets, si mille liz j'embrasse,
Entortillant mes bras tout à l'entour,
Plus fort qu'un cep, qui d'un amoureux tour
La branche aimée, en mille plis enlasse :
Si le soucy ne jaunist plus ma face,
Si le plaisir fait en moy son le jour,
Si j'aime mieux les Ombres que le jour,
Songe divin, ce bien vient de ta grâce.
Suyvant ton vol je volerois aux cieux :
Mais son portrait qui me trompe les yeux,
Fraude tousjours ma joye entre-rompue.
Puis tu me fuis au milieu de mon bien,
Comme un éclair qui se finist en rien,
Ou comme au vent s'évanouyt la nuë.
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liz -> lis
soucy -> souci
jaunist -> jaunit
moy -> moi
tousjours -> toujours
joye -> joie
entre-rompue -> interrompue
finist -> finit
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Word count: 113
Language: English after the French (Français)
If I embrace a thousand pinks or a thousand lilies,
Twisting them all around my arms
Tighter than a vine which in amorous style
Entwines its beloved branch in a thousand curves;
If care no longer jaundices my face,
If pleasure chooses to stay with me,
If I prefer the shadows to the day,
My divine dream, this good comes from your favour.
Following your flight I could fly to the heavens;
But her image which fools my eyes
Always deceives my exhausted joy;
And then you flee from me in the midst of my happiness,
Like a flash of lightning which ends in nothing,
Or like a cloud which disappears in the breeze.
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