by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de...
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de May la rose En sa belle jeunesse, en sa premiere fleur Rendre le ciel jaloux de sa vive couleur, Quand l'Aube de ses pleurs au poinct du jour l'arrose: La grace dans sa fueille, et l'amour se repose, Embasmant les jardins et les arbres d'odeur: Mais batue ou de pluye, ou d'excessive ardeur, Languissante elle meurt fueille à fueille déclose: Ainsi en ta premiere et jeune nouveauté, Quand la terre et le ciel honoroient ta beauté, La Parque t'a tuée, et cendre tu reposes. Pour obseques reçoy mes larmes et mes pleurs, Ce vase plein de laict, ce panier plein de fleurs, Afin que vif, et mort, ton corps ne soit que roses.
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Authorship
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Les Amours (1553), appears in Sur la mort de Marie [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 Alfredo Casella (1883 - 1947), "Sonnet", 1910, published 1913 [high voice and piano], Éd. Albert Zunz Mathot (Salabert) [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Nicolas Chevereau (b. 1989), "Comme on voit sur la branche", published 2014 [baritone and piano], from Quatre poèmes de Ronsard pour baryton et piano, no. 1, Éd. du compositeur [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Colette Delatour (b. 1936) and by Ruth Matarasso , "Sur la mort de Marie", 1997 [medium voice and piano], from Les miroirs profonds, no. 14, revised 1998 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by William Hawley (b. 1950), "Sur la mort de Marie", first performed 1997 [SATB chorus and piano], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 1 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux (1863 - 1919), "Offrande" [high voice and piano], from Dix Mélodies, 1er recueil, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "On the death of Marie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 122