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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Je vy ma Nymphe entre cent damoyselles
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Je vy ma Nymphe entre cent damoyselles,
Comme un Croyssant par les menuz flambeaulx,
Et de ses yeulx plus que les astres beaulx
Faire obscurcir la beaulté des plus belles.

Dedans son sein les graces immortelles,
La Gaillardize, et les freres jumeaux,
Alloyent vollant comme petitz oyseaux
Par my le verd des branches plus nouvelles.

Le ciel ravy, que [son chant esmouvoyt]1,
Roses, et liz, et girlandes pleuvoyt
Tout [au rond]2 d'elle au meillieu de la place:

Si qu'en despit de l'hyver froydureux,
Par la vertu de ses yeulx amoureux,
Un beau printemps s'esclouit de sa face.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Bertrand 

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1 Bertrand: "si belle la void"
2 Bertrand: "autour"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Je vy ma nymphe", 1576, published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1, no. 22 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Entre cent damoiselles", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 3ème volume, no. 9, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I can spot my Nymph", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 100

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