Thérèse | Loving Thérèse is my madness

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by ?, Vicomte de Wargemont

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Thérèse

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

 Aimer Thérèse, est ma folie,
 Cette folie est un poison;
 Mais peut on la voir si jolie,
 Hélas! sans perdre la raison?

 Oui les septs Sages de la Grêce
 À Thérèse eusseunt fait la cour:
 Pour elle oubliant la sagesse,
 Ils eussent raffollés d'amour.

Text Authorship:

by ?, Vicomte de Wargemont [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 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760 - 1802), "Thérèse", published 1805, from the collection Kleine Balladen und Lieder, Heft VII, no. 24. [
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ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "Thérèse", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

Thérèse

Language: English after the French (Français)

 Loving Thérèse is my madness,
  a poisoned madness,
 but can anyone see her beauty
 without losing his mind?
 
 Yes, the seven sages of Greece
 would have courted Thérèse,
 forgetting their wisdom,
 lost in love.

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a text in French (Français) by ?, Vicomte de Wargemont
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 35