Sonnet XXIV | Ne reprenez, Dames, si i'ay aymé

by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Ne reprenez, Dames, si i'ay aymé

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Ne reprenez, Dames, si i'ay aymé :
 Si i'ay senti mile torches ardantes,
 Mile trauaus, mile douleurs mordantes :
 Si en pleurant, i'ay mon tems consumé,

Las que mon nom n'en soit par vous blamé.
 Si i'ay failli, les peines sont presentes,
 N'aigrissez point leurs pointes violentes :
 Mais estime qu'Amour, à point nommé,

Sans votre ardeur d'un Vulcan excuser,
 Sans la beauté d'Adonis acuser.
 Pourra, s'il veut, plus vous rendre amoureuses :

En ayant moins que moy d'ocasion,
 Et plus d'estrange & forte passion.
 Et gardez vous d'estre plus malheureuses.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Louise Labé, texte établi par Charles Boy, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 107.

Text Authorship:

by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 24 [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):

by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Ne reprenez, Dames, si j’ai aimé", op. 206 no. 2 (2006) [ high voice, guitar, and mandole ], from Le Jardin de Louise Labé, Suite, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge (1924 - 1980), "Sonnet XXIV", published 1951 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois airs, sur des poèmes de Louise Labé, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
by Lex Zwaap (1919 - 1988), as Lex van Delden, "Sonnet XXIV", op. 1 no. 2 (1937) [ soprano, flute, clarinet, and string trio ], from L'amour, 4 liederen en 3 interludes, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 24, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, first published 1917 ; composed by Grete von Zieritz.
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-06
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Word count: 87