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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

J'aï pour maistresse une etrange...
Language: French (Français) 
J'aï pour maistresse une etrange Gorgonne,
Qui va passant les anges en beauté,
C'est un vray Mars en dure cruauté,
En chasteté la fille de Latonne.

Quand je la voy, mile fois je m'estonne
La larme à l'oeil, ou que ma fermeté
Ne la flechit, ou que sa dureté
Ne me conduit d'où plus on ne retourne.

De la nature un coeur je n'ay receu,
Ainçois plus tost pour se nourir en feu
i En lieu de luy j'ay une Salamandre,

Car si j'avoi de chair un coeur humain,
Long tems y a qu'il fust reduit en cendre,
Veu le brasier dont toujours il ard plain.

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Note: this is a modernized form of the poem.


Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Thilloy (b. 1970), "J'aï pour maistresse", op. 172 no. 3 (2010), published 2010 [ baritone and piano ], from Le Piège des fleurs, trois mélodies pour baryton sur des poèmes de Ronsard, no. 3, Éd. Musicales de La Salamandre [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-10-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 106

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