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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Quand je suis tout baissé sur vostre...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Quand je suis tout baissé sur vostre belle face,
Je voy dedans vos yeux je ne sçay quoy de [blanc]1,
Je ne sçay quoy de noir, qui m’esmeut tout le sang,
Et qui jusques au cœur de veine en veine passe.
 
Je voy dedans Amour qui va changeant de place,
Ores bas, ores haut, tousjours me regardant,
Et son arc contre moy coup sur coup desbandant.
Las ! si je faux, Raison, que veux-tu que [j’y]2 face ?
 
Tant s’en faut que je sois alors maistre de moy
Que je vendrois mon père et trahirois mon roy,
[Mon païs et]3 ma sœur, mes frères et ma mère ;
 
Tant je suis hors du sens après que j’ay tasté
A longs traits amoureux de la poison amere,
Qui sort de ces beaux yeux dont je suis enchanté.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. de Maletty 

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1 Maletty: "blame"
2 Maletty: "je"
3 Maletty: "Et"

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), "Quand je suis tout baissé sur vostre belle face", published 1607 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 15, Paris, Pierre Ballard [
     text verified 1 time
    ]
  • by Jean de Maletty (flourished 16th century), "Quand je suis tout baissé sur vostre belle face" [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Another version of this text exists in the database.

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "When I am bowed over your beautiful face", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2015-02-27
Line count: 14
Word count: 137

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