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by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Ô dous regars, ô yeus pleins de beauté
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ô dous regars, ô yeus pleins de beauté,
 Petis iardins, pleins de fleurs amoureuses
 Ou sont d'Amour les flesches dangereuses.
 Tant à vous voir mon œil s'est arresté !

Ô cœur félon, ô rude cruauté,
 Tant tu me tiens de façons rigoureuses.
 Tant i'ay coulé de larmes langoureuses.
 Sentant l'ardeur de mon cœur tourmenté !

Donques, mes yeus, tant de plaisir auez,
 Tant de bons tours par ses yeus receuez :
 Mais toy, mon cœur, plus les vois s'y complaire,

Plus tu languiz, plus en as de souci,
 Or deuinez si ie suis aise aussi,
 Sentant mon œil estre à mon cœur contraire.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Louise Labé, texte établi par Charles Boy, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 99.


Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 11 [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 ]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Rainer Maria Rilke) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 11, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, first published 1917


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-03-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 100

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