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by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Tant que mes yeus pourront larmes espandre
 (Sung text for setting by A. Reimann)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Tant que mes yeus pourront larmes espandre,
 À l'heur passé auec toy regretter :
 Et qu'aus sanglots & soupirs resister
 Pourra ma voix, & un peu faire entendre :

Tant que ma main pourra les cordes tendre
 Du mignart Lut, pour tes grâces chanter :
 Tant que l'esprit se voudra contenter
 De ne vouloir rien fors que toy comprendre :

Ie ne souhaitte encore point mourir.
 Mais quand mes yeus ie sentiray tarir,
 Ma voix cassee, & ma main impuissante,

Et mon esprit en ce mortel seiour
 Ne pouuant plus montrer signe d'amante :
 Priray la Mort noircir mon plus cler iour.

Composition:

    Set to music by Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Tant que mes yeus pourront larmes espandre", op. 10 no. 7 (1986), published 1988 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Neun Sonette der Louize Labé, no. 7, Mainz, B. Schott's Söhne; confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), written 1552, appears in Sonnets, no. 14

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, 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. 14, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, first published 1917


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-07-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 97

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