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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Translation © by Dr Huaixing Wang

Quand au matin ma déesse s'habille
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Quand au matin ma Déesse s'habille,
D'un riche or crespe ombrageant ses talons,
Et que les rets de ses beaux cheveux blons
En cent façons [en-onde]1 et entortille :

Je l'accompare à l'escumiere fille
Qui or'pignant les siens jaunement lons,
Or' les frizant en mille crespillons,
Nageoit à bord dedans une coquille.

De femme humaine encore ne [sont]2 pas
Son ris, son front, ses gestes, ne ses pas,
Ne de ses yeux l'une et l'autre estincelle.

Rocs, eaux, ne bois, ne [logent]3 point en eux
Nymphe qui ait si follastres cheveux,
Ny l'oeil si beau, ny la bouche si belle.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   G. Boni 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Boni: "en-noude"
2 Boni: "font"
3 Boni: "celent"

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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Quand au matin ma déesse s'habille", published 1608 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 13, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "当我的女神在清晨梳妆", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "When my goddess dresses in the morning", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-02-27
Line count: 14
Word count: 102

当我的女神在清晨梳妆
Language: Chinese (中文)  after the French (Français) 
当我的女神在清晨梳妆
华丽卷曲金发遮蔽脚跟,
当她挥舞并扭动着如云
美丽的金发翻动着波浪;

然后把她比作泡沫女郎
梳理着自己长长的金发,
现在把它弄成蓬松如纱
在贝壳里渡过宽广海洋。

她的微笑、额头、手势、步伐
她双眼中那闪烁的光华,
不再是女性生活在凡间。

如此迷人头发的女仙人
有如此美的眼睛和嘴唇,
岩石、水和树林没有家园。

Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation from French (Français) to Chinese (中文) copyright © 2024 by Dr Huaixing Wang, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2024-09-29
Line count: 14
Word count: 14

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