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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Genièvres hérissés
 (Sung text for setting by J. Leguerney)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Genièvres hérissés, et vous, houx épineux
L'un hôte des déserts, et l'autre d'un bocage ;
Lierre, le tapis d'un bel antre sauvage,
Sources qui bouillonnez d'un surgeon sablonneux ;
Pigeons qui vous baisez d'un baiser savoureux
Tourtres qui lamentez d'un éternel veuvage.
Rossignols ramagers qui d'un plaisant langage
Nuit et jour rechantez vos versets amoureux ;
Vous, à la gorge rouge, étrangère arondelle.
Si vous voyez ma Nymphe aller en ce printemps
Pour cueillir des bouquets par cette herbe nouvelle,
Dites-lui pour néant que sa grâce j'attends,
Et que, pour ne souffrir le mal que j'ai pour elle,
J'ai mieux aimé mourir que languir si longtemps.

Composition:

    Set to music by Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Genièvres hérissés", 1943, published 1950 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. I, no. 2, Editions Salabert

Text Authorship:

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

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Bristling junipers", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Humbert Wolfe) , no title, first published 1934


Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 104

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