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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Sonnet
 (Sung text for setting by G. Bizet)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Vous méprisez nature: êtes-vous si cruelle
De ne vouloir aimer? voyez les passereaux
Qui démènent l'amour,  ...  voyez la tourterelle.
Voyez déça, delà, d'une frétillante aile
Voleter par les bois les amoureux oiseaux,
Voyez la jeune vigne embrasser les ormeaux,
Et toute chose rire en la saison nouvelle.
Ici la bergerette en tournant son fuseau
Dégoise ses amours, et là le pastoureau
Répond à sa chanson; ici toute chose aime,
Tout parle d'amour, tout s'en veut enflammer.
Seulement votre coeur froid d'une glace extrême
Demeure opiniâtre et ne veut pas aimer.

Composition:

    Set to music by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Sonnet", 1866, published 1866 [ medium voice and piano ], from Feuilles d'Album, no. 3, Paris, Éd. “Au Ménestrel” Heugel

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "You despise nature", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 97

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