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by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560)

O de ma vie à peu près expirée
Language: Middle French 
O de ma vie à peu près expirée
 . . . . . . . . . .

— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —

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Modernized form of text:

O de ma vie à peu pres expirée
Le seul filet ! yeux, dont l’aveugle archer
A bien sceu mil’, et mil’fleches lascher
Sans qu’il en ait oncq’une en vain tirée.

Toute ma force est en vous retirée,
Vers vous je vien’ma guerison chercher,
Qui pouvez seulz la playe dessecher,
Que j’ay par vous (ô beaux yeux !) endurée.

Vous estes seulz mon etoile amyable,
Vous pouvez seulz tout l’ennuy terminer,
Ennuy mortel de mon ame offensée.

Vostre clarté me soit doncq’pitoyable,
Et d’un beau jour vous plaise illuminer
L’obscure nuyt de ma triste pensée.


Text Authorship:

  • by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560), no title, appears in Cinquante Sonnetz a la Louange de l'Olive, no. 12, first published 1550

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "O de ma vie à peu près expirée", published 1927 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 8ème volume, no. 11, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel
        Score: IMSLP [external link]

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