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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Biauté qui toutes autres pere
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Biauté qui toutes autres pere
Envers moy diverse et estrange,
Douceur fine à mon goust amere,
Corps digne de toute loange,
Simple vis à cuer d'aïmant,
Regart pour tuer un amant,
Samblant de joie et response d'esmay
M'ont ad ce mis que pour amer morray.

Detri d'ottri que moult compere,
Bel Acueil qui de moy se vange
Amour marrastre et nompas mere,
Espoir qui de joie m'estrange,
Povre secours, desir ardant,
Triste penser, cuer souspirant,
Durté, desdaing, dangier et refus qu'ay
M'ont ad ce mis que pour amer morray.

Si vueil bien qu'à ma dame appere
Qu'elle ma joie en doleur change
Et que sa bele face clere
Me destruit, tant de meschief sen je,
Et que gieu n'ay, revel ne chant,
N'einsi com je seuil plus ne chant,
Pour ce qu'Amour, mi oueil et son corps gay
M'ont à ce mis que pour amer morray.

Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Biauté qui toutes autres pere" [vocal trio], ballade [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Beauty to equal all beauties", copyright © 2015, (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: 24
Word count: 146

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