I compare with your young beauty | I compare with your young beauty

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Je parangonne à ta jeune beauté

(Sung text for setting by A. Bertrand)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Je parangonne à ta jeune beauté.
Qui toujours dure en son printemps nouvelle.
Ce mois d'avril qui ses fleurs renouvelle,
En sa plus gaie et verte nouveauté.

Loin devant toi s'en fuyt la cruauté :
Devant lui fuit la saison plus cruelle.
Il est tout beau, ta face est toute belle :
Ferme est son cours, ferme est ta loyauté :

Il peint les champs de dix mille couleurs,
Tu peins mes vers d'un long émail de fleurs :
D’un doux Zefyr il fait onder les plaines,

Et toy mon cœur d’un soupir larmoyant :
D’un beau cristal son front est rosoyant,
Tu fais sortir de mes yeux deux fontaines.

Composition:

Anthoine de Bertrand

Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I compare with your young beauty", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 112

I compare with your young beauty

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Bertrand)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

I compare with your young beauty
Which lasts forever in its own new spring
This month of April which renews the flowers
In their gayest and greenest newness.

Cruelty flees far from you
Before him flees the cruellest season;
He is all handsomeness, your face all beauty;
Firm is his course, firm is your loyalty;

He paints the fields with ten thousand colours,
You paint my verse with a long sprinkling of flowers;
With a sweet breeze he makes the plains undulate,

And you make my heart undulate with a tearful sigh;
With clear water his brow is bedewed,
You make two springs flow from my eyes.

Translator's note for stanza 2, line 2, word 2: i.e., April.

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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
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