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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

L'an que voi l'erbe respiandre
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
L'an que voi l'erbe respiandre
Par les prez et renverdir
Lors vuil a chanter entendre
Que ne m'en puis plus tenir.
Mes cuers me fait ce emprendre
Qu iert mout grief au deservir
Amer, sans guierredon rendre
Ne puet mie cors soffrir
A longuement maintenir
Sanz confort et sanz merci.

Ja ne me grevast atendre
S'au loing me vousist oir.
Mes por c'est ma joie maindre
Que paor ai de faillir.
La fin d'amors vuil aprendre
Que j'en sai jusqu'au morir.
Ne nuns ne me puet deffendre
A amer ne a haïr.
Si me plait a maintenir
Amors, qu'el me plait merir.

Amors a grant seignorie
Sor moi, bien le m'a mostré.
Por ce nou retrai je mie
Qu'a li n'aie mon pensei.
Et se ma dame m'oblie,
Tant li cri : Merci, por Dé !
Qu'ele reconoisse et die
Que j'ai lëaument amé.
Adonc li soit pardoné.
Se je moroie, por Dé.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Gace Brulé (c1160 - 1213), "L'an que voi l'erbe respiandre" [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-28
Line count: 30
Word count: 151

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