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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Las ! sans espoir je languis
 (Sung text for setting by P. Monte)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Las ! sans espoir je languis à grand tort,
Pour la rigueur d'une beauté si fière,
Qui sans ouïr mes pleurs ni ma prière
Rit de mon mal si violent et fort

De la beauté dont j'espérais support,
Pour mon service et longue foi première,
Je ne reçois que tourment et misère,
Et pour secours je n'attends que la mort.

Mais telle dame est si sage et si belle
Que si quelqu'un la veut nommer cruelle
En me voyant traité cruellement

Vienne au combat ici je le défie,
Il connaîtra qu'un si dur traitement
Pour ses vertus m'est une douce vie.

Composition:

    Set to music by Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603), "Las ! sans espoir je languis"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Alas, hopeless I pine in great wrong", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: John Versmoren , David Wyatt

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 100

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