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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Un chaste feu qui en l'ame domine
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
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Un chaste feu qui en l'ame domine
Un or frisé de meint crespe anelet,
Un front de rose, un teint damoiselet,
Un ris qui l'ame aux Astres achemine :

Une vertu de telles graces digne,
Un col de neige, une gorge de lait,
Un coeur ja meur en un sein verdelet,
En Dame humaine une beauté divine :

Un oeil puissant de faire jours les nuis,
Une main douce à piller les ennuis,
Qui tient ma vie en ses dois enfermée :

Avec un chant [decoupé]1 doucement,
Or' d'un souris, or' d'un gemissement :
De tels sorciers ma raison fut charmée.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Boni 

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1 Boni: "offensé"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Un chaste feu qui en l'ame domine", published 1608 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 21, Paris, Pierre Ballard [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "A chaste fire which rules in my soul", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-03-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 98

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