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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Ode
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je te salue heureuse Paix,
Je te salue et re-salue:
Toy seule Déesse tu fais
Que la vie soit mieux voulue.
Ainsi que les champs tapissez
De pampre, ou d'espics herissez
Desirent les filles des nues
Apres les chaleurs survenues,
Ainsi la France t'attendoit,
Douce nourriciere des hommes,
Douce rosee qui consommes
La chaleur qui trop nous ardoit.

Tu as esteint tout l'ennuy
Des guerres injurieuses,
Faisant flamber aujourd'huy
Tes graces victorieuses.
En lieu du fer outrageux,
Des menaces et des flammes,
Tu nous ramènes les jeux,
Le bal et l'amour des Dames,
Travaux mignards et plaisants
À l'ardeur des jeunes ans.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [author's text not yet checked 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 Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Ode", 1953, published 1970 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poèmes pour la Paix, no. 2, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Ode", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 22
Word count: 102

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