by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Tu dis que c'est, mignarde
Language: French (Français)
Tu dis que c'est, mignarde
Qu’incessament te darde
D’un traict d’oeil à mourir.
Mais lors que je regarde
Le tien qui me mignarde
Soudain me faict perir.
Vien donc soubz le fueillade,
Ta fretillante oeillade
Ne me peut secourir.
Viens je veux quoy qu’il tarde
Te donner la gaillarde
Pour l’un l’autre guerir.
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You say it’s sweet
Language: English after the French (Français)
You say it’s sweet
That I ceaselessly dart you
A look to die for;
But while I look in
Your eye which I find so sweet,
Suddenly it makes me perish.
Come then beneath the greenery,
Your trembling glance
Cannot save me.
Come: I hope, though it’s late,
To frolic with you
That each may cure the other.
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