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Bonjour mon cœur Bonjour mon cœur, Bonjour ma douce vie, Bonjour mon œil Bonjour ma chere amie! Hé! bonjour, ma toute belle, Ma mignardise, Bonjour, mes délices, Mon amour, Mon doux printemps, Ma douce fleur nouvelle, Mon doux plaisir, Ma douce colombelle, Mon passereau, ma gente tourterelle! Bonjour ma douce rebelle. Je veux mourir Si plus on me reproche Que mon service Est plus froid qu'une roche, De t'avoir laissé maistresse Pour aller suivre le roy [Et chercher]1 je ne sçay quoy Que le vulgaire Appelle une largesse. Plustoste perisse honneur, Cour et richesse, Que pour les biens Jamais je te relaisse, Ma douce et belle deesse.
R. de Lassus sets stanzas 1-2 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
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View original text (without footnotes)1 de Monte: "Mandiant"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Bonjour, mon cœur", 1925, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], Edition Rouart, Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Judith Cloud (1954 - 2023), "Bonjour, mon cœur" [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quatre mélodies de Ronsard, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Bonjour", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 27, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Groz , "Bonjour mon cœur", op. 8 no. 1, published [1910] [ medium voice and piano ], from Les Amours de Marie, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Bonjour mon cœur", 1564, stanzas 1-2 [ vocal quintet for 2 tenors, 2 baritones, and bass ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Bonjour mon cœur", another setting [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603), "Bonjour mon cœur" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emanuel Moór (1863 - 1931), "Bonjour mon cœur", op. 88a no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Premier Recueil de Mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Bonjour mon cœur", VWV 1072, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch & Cie [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) (David Wyatt) , "Hail, my heart", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: David Wyatt
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 29
Word count: 108
Hail, my heart Hail, my heart; hail, my sweet life; hail, my eye; hail, my dear friend. Hail, oh hail, my beauty, my sweetheart; hail, my sweet one, my love, my sweet spring, my delicate new flower, my sweet pleasure, my gentle little dove, my sparrow, my turtledove! Hail, my sweet rebel. I wish to die If any further I'm reproached That my service Is colder than a stone, Of having left you, mistress, To go and follow the king And to [seek]1 some thing Which the common herd Call a handout. Rather let honour perish And court and riches Than that for possessions I should ever let you go My sweet and lovely goddess.
First two stanzas by Faith Cormier (for the setting by Lassus); last two by David Wyatt.
1 de Monte: "beg for"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2001 by Faith J. Cormier and David Wyatt, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 29
Word count: 116