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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Helas! tant ay doleur et peinne
Language: French (Français) 
Helas! tant ay doleur et peinne,
Dame, quant de vous me depart
Sans joie, que soiez certeinne
Qu'à po que le cuers ne me part.
Se demeinne mon dueil à part
Si grant que trop cruel seroit
Li cuers qui pitié n'en aroit.

Car toute dolour m'est procheinne,
Sans avoir joie main ne tart,
Quant la grant douceur m'est lonteinne
De vostre dous riant regart
Qui navré d'un amoureus dart
M'a; si que trop crueus seroit
Li cuers qui pitié n'en aroit.

Et quant vo biauté souvereinne
Ne voy, Grief Desir, par son art,
De moy mettre à la mort se peinne;
Car il esprent mon cuer et l'art
Et d'une dolour le repart,
Telle que trop crueus seroit
Li cuers qui pitié n'en aroit.

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), "Helas! tant ay doleur et peinne" [vocal duet], ballade [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 125

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