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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Amour me tue
 (Sung text for setting by A. Bertrand)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Amour me tue, et si je ne veus dire
  Le plaisant mal que ce m'est de mourir:
  Tant j'ay grand peur, qu'on voulust secourir
  Ce doux tourment pour lequel je soupire.

Il est bien vray, que ma langueur desire
  Qu'avec le tans je me puisse guerir:
  Mais je ne veus ma dame requerir
  Pour ma santé: tant me plait mon martire.

Tay toy langueur: je sen venir le jour,
  Que ma maistresse, après si loing sejour,
  Voyant le soing qui ronge ma pensée,

Tout' une nuict, folatrement m'aiant
  Entre ses bras, prodigu', ira paiant
  Les interés de ma pein' avancée.

Composition:

    Set to music by Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Amour me tue", 1576, published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1, no. 15

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Les Amours (1553), no. 5, first published 1553

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Love is slaying me", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 102

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