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by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Ô longs desirs, Ô esperances vaines
 (Sung text for setting by A. Reimann)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ô longs desirs, Ô esperances vaines,
 Tristes soupirs & larmes coutumieres
 À engendrer de moy maintes riuieres,
 Dont mes deus yeus sont sources & fontaines :

Ô cruautez, ô durtez inhumaines,
 Piteus regars des celestes lumieres :
 Du cœur transi ô passions premieres,
 Estimez vous croitre encore mes peines ?

Qu'encor Amour sur moy son arc essaie,
 Que nouueaus feus me gette & nouueaus dars :
 Qu'il se despite, & pis qu'il pourra face :

Car ie suis tant nauree en toutes pars,
 Que plus en moy une nouuelle plaie,
 Pour m'empirer ne pourroit trouuer place.

Composition:

    Set to music by Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Ô longs desirs, Ô esperances vaines", op. 10 no. 2 (1986), published 1988 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Neun Sonette der Louize Labé, no. 2, Mainz, B. Schott's Söhneconfirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 3

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Rainer Maria Rilke) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 3, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, first published 1917


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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 91

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