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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

La Lune est coustumiere
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
La Lune est coustumiere
Renaistre tous les mois
Mais quand notre lumiere
Sera morte une fois,
Longtems sans reveiller
Nous faudra sommeiller.

Tandis que vivons ores,
Un baiser donne moy,
Donne m’en mille encores,
Amour n’a point de loy,
A sa grand deité
Convient l’infinité.

Ah vous m’avéz maitresse
De la dent entamé,
La langue chanteresse,
De vostre nom aymé :
Quoy ? est-ce la le pris
Du labeur qu’elle a pris ?

Elle, qui voz louanges
Dessus le Luth vantoit,
Et aux peuples estranges
Voz merites chantoit,
Ne faisant l’air si non
Bruyre de votre nom.

De voz te[t]ins d’Ivoyre
Joyaux de l’Orient,
Eternisoit la gloyre,
Et de votre œil friant
Pour la recompenser
La faut il offenser ?

Las ! de petite chose
Je me plain durement,
La playe en l’ame enclose
Me cuit bien autrement
Que ton œil m’y laissa
Le jour qu’il me blessa.

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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 Pierre Cléreau (c1515 - 1569), "La Lune est coustumiere" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Henriette Puig-Roget (1910 - 1992), "Madrigal", 1934, published 1935 [ tenor and piano ], from Trois Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges-Martin Witkowski (1867 - 1943), "A sa maîtresse", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2, Paris : Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "The moon is accustomed", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2022-02-19
Line count: 36
Word count: 143

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