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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Bien moustrez, Printemps gracieux
Language: French (Français) 
Bien moustrez, Printemps gracieux,
De quel mestier savez servir,
Car Yver fait cueurs ennuieux,
Et vous les faictes resjouir.
Si tost comme il vous voit venir,
Lui et sa meschant retenue
Sont contrains et prestz de fuir
A vostre joyeuse venue.

Yver fait champs et arbres vieulx,
Leurs barbes de neige blanchir,
Et est si froit, ort et pluieux
Qu'emprés le feu couvient croupir ;
On ne peut hors des huis yssir
Comme un oisel qui est en mue.
Mais vous faittes tout rajeunir
A vostre joyeuse venue.

Yver fait le souleil es cieulx
Du mantel des nues couvrir ;
Or maintenant, loué soit Dieux,
Vous estes venu esclersir
Toutes choses et embellir.
Yver a sa peine perdue,
Car l'an nouvel l'a fait bannir
A vostre joyeuse venue.

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Bien moustrez, Printemps gracieux" [author's text checked 1 time 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):

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , "Spring", appears in Voices of the Night, first published 1839 ; composed by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, Francesco Berger, Bernard Farebrother, Joseph Holbrooke, Henry Lahee, Arthur William Marchant, Francis Romer.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-23
Line count: 24
Word count: 126

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