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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

À la Fontaine Bellerie
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
O Déesse Bellerie,
Belle Déesse cherie
De nos Nimphes, dont la vois
Sonne ta gloire hautaine
Accordante au son des bois,
Voire au bruit de ta fontaine,
Et de mes vers que tu ois.

Tu es la Nimphe eternelle
De ma terre paternelle,
Pource en ce pré verdelet
Voi ton Poëte qui t'orne
D'un petit chevreau de laict,
A qui l'une & l'autre corne
Sortent du front nouvelet.

Sus ton bord je me repose,
Et là oisif je compose
Caché sous tes saules vers
Je ne sçai quoi, qui ta gloire
Envoira par l'univers,
Commandant à la memoire
Que tu vives par mes vers.

L'ardeur de la Canicule
Toi, ne tes rives ne brule,
Tellement qu'en toutes pars
Ton ombre est epaisse & drue
Aus pasteurs venans des parcs,
Aus beufs las de la charue,
Et au bestial epars.

Tu seras faites sans cesse
Des fontaines la princesse,
Moi çelebrant le conduit
Du rocher persé, qui darde
Avec un enroué bruit,
L'eau de ta source jazarde
Qui trepillante se suit.

This is the later version of the ode.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "À la Fontaine Bellerie", appears in Odes de 1550, no. 9, first published 1550 [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 Jean Chatillon (1937 - 2019), "À la Fontaine Bellerie", op. 34 no. 1 (1965), rev. 1994 [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William Hawley (b. 1950), "À la Fontaine Bellerie", first performed 1997 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Rudolf Escher.

  • Go to the text. [ view differences ] ENG

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "To the Bellerie fountain", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 35
Word count: 170

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