by Jean Froissart (c1337 - c1410)
Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire!
Language: Old French (Ancien français)
Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire! En vous ne puis veoir riens de seür, Je ne cognois ne vous ne vostre afaire. Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire! Lequel vault mieulz: pryer, parler ou taire? Dittes le moi, qui avés bon eür. Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire! En vous ne puis veoir riens de seür.
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Confirmed with Jean Froissart, Rondelés Amoureus. Tome Deuxieme, Oeuvres de Froissart, ed. by Auguste Scheler, Bruxelles: Devaux, 1871, pages 410-411.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean Froissart (c1337 - c1410), no title, appears in Rondelés Amoureus, no. 51
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Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)
Love, love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine? Naught see I sure or fixed in thee! I do not know thee, -- nor what deeds are thine: Love, love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine? Naught see I fixed or sure in thee! Shall I be mute, or vows with prayers combine? Ye who are blessed in loving, tell it me: Love, love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine? Naught see I permanent or sure in thee!
Composition:
- Set to music by Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934), "Rondel", op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 3 (1894), first performed 1897 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar, no. 6, first published as op. 16 no. 3 in 1896, republished 1907 with German words, also set in German (Deutsch)
Text Authorship:
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "Rondel", appears in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published 1868
Based on:
- a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Jean Froissart (c1337 - c1410), no title, appears in Rondelés Amoureus, no. 51
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-05
Line count: 9
Word count: 83