LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,117)
  • Text Authors (19,521)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Il me semble que la journée
 (Sung text for setting by C. Goudimel)
 Matches base text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Il me semble que la journée
Coule plus longue qu’une année,
Quant par malheur je n’ay ce bien
De voir la grand beauté de celle
Qui tient mon cœur, et sans laquelle
Veisse-je tout je ne voy rien.

Quiconques fut jadis le sage
Qui dit ce qu’il ayme, et dit vray ;
Ailleurs vivant il ne peut estre,
Ni d’autre viande se paistre.
J’en suis seur, j’en ay fait l’essay.

Tousjours l’amant vit en l’aymée :
Pour cela mon ame affamée
Ne se veut souler que d’Amour,
De l’amour elle est si friande,
Que sans plus de telle viande
Se veut repaistre nuit et jour.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Goudimel (c1514 - 1572), "Il me semble que la journée"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Go to the general single-text view

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "It seems to me that a day", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2022-02-19
Line count: 17
Word count: 103

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris