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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

À Cupidon
 (Sung text for setting by D. Milhaud)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG ENG
Le jour pousse la nuit
  Et la nuit sombre
Pousse le jour qui luit
  D'une obscure ombre.

L'Automne suit l'Été
  Et l'âpre rage
Des vents n'a point été
  Après l'orage.

Mais la fièvre d'amours
  Qui me tourmente
Demeure en moi toujours
  Et ne s'alente.

Ce n'était pas moi, Dieu,
  Qu'il fallait poindre;
Ta flèche en d'autre lieu
  Se devait joindre.

Poursuis les paresseux
  Et les amuse,
Mais non pas moi, ni ceux
  Qu'aime la Muse...

Note: A five-stanza version of this poem exists with a different third stanza:

Mais le mal nonobstant 
D'amour dolente 
Demeure en moi constant 
Et ne s'alente.

Composition:

    Set to music by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "À Cupidon", op. 223 no. 2 (1940), stanzas 1-5 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Chansons de Ronsard, no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "À Cupidon"

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (David Jonathan Justman) , "To Cupid", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "To Cupid", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Claycomb) , "To Cupid", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 60
Word count: 217

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