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by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)
Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Quand i’aperçoy ton blond chef couronné
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
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Quand i’aperçoy ton blond chef couronné
 D’un laurier verd, faire un Lut si bien pleindre,
 Que tu pourrois à te suiure contreindre
 Arbres & rocs : quand ie te vois orné.

Et de vertus dix mile enuironné,
 Au chef d’honneur plus haut que nul ateindre :
 Et des plus hauts les louenges esteindre :
 Lors dit mon cœur en soy passionné :

Tant de vertus qui te font estre aymé,
 Qui de chacun te font estre estimé,
 Ne te pourroient aussi bien faire aymer ?

Et aioutant à ta vertu louable
 Ce nom encor de m’estre pitoyable.
 De mon amour doucement t’enflamer ?

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Louise Labé. Texte établi par Charles Boy, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur, 1887, pages 98-99.


Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 10 [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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 10 ; composed by Konrad Rötscher.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-03-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 97

Seh ich dein Haupt, das blonde,...
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
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Seh ich dein Haupt, das blonde, schöngekrönt,
und deiner Laute Klagen, so beflissen,
daß Bäume ihr und Felsen, hingerissen,
nachdrängen möchten, wo sie tönt;
 
seh ich dich selbst inmitten deiner Kraft
auf alle Art den größten Preis erreichen
und immer aufglühn und die andern bleichen,
so sagt sich meines Herzens Leidenschaft:
 
Kann so viel Eignung, Tugend und Talent,
die macht, daß jeder gleich für dich entbrennt,
dich selber nicht am Ende lieben machen?
 
Zu deinen tausend Titeln käme dies:
daß deine Liebe sich erbitten ließ,
sich an der meinen zärtlich zu entfachen.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1917.


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 10 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 10
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Konrad Rötscher (1910 - 1979), "Seh ich dein Haupt, das blonde", op. 24 no. 2, published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Sonette der Louise Labé, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-03-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 92

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