LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,226)
  • Text Authors (19,713)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,115)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Maurice Scève (1510 - 1564)

Moins je la vois, certes plus je la hais
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
  Moins je la vois, certes plus je la hais ;
Plus je la hais, et moins elle me fâche.
Plus je l'estime, et moins compte j'en fais ;
Plus je la fuis, plus veux qu'elle me sache.
  En un moment deux divers traits me lâche,
Amour et haine, ennui avec plaisir.
  Forte est l'amour qui lors me vient saisir
Quand haine vient et vengeance me crie ;
Ainsi me fait haïr mon vain désir
Celle pour qui mon coeur toujours me prie.

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Scève (1510 - 1564), "Moins je la vois certes, plus je la hais", appears in Délie, Objet de plus haute vertu, no. 43 [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Moins je la vois", op. 409 no. 5 (1964), published 1966 [ soprano and piano ], from L'amour chante, no. 5, Bryn Mawr, Theodore Presser and Co. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Laura L. Nagle) , "The less I see her", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Laura L. Nagle

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 80

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris