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by Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594 - 1661)

Le paresseux
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Accablé de paresse et de mélancolie,
Je rêve dans un lit où je suis fagoté,
Comme un lièvre sans os qui dort dans un pâté,
Ou comme un Don Quichotte en sa morne folie.

Là, sans me soucier des guerres d'Italie,
Du comte Palatin, ni de sa royauté,
Je consacre un bel hymne à cette oisiveté
Où mon âme en langueur est comme ensevelie.

Je trouve ce plaisir si doux et si charmant,
Que je crois que les biens me viendront en dormant,
Puisque je vois déjà s'en enfler ma bedaine,

Et hais tant le travail, que, les yeux entrouverts,
Une main hors des draps, cher Baudoin, à peine
Ai-je pu me résoudre à t'écrire ces vers.

Text Authorship:

  • by Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594 - 1661), "Le paresseux", subtitle: "Sonnet", appears in La Suite des œuvres du Sieur de Saint-Amant, first published 1631 [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 Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Le paresseux", 1947, published 1986, first performed 1986 [ baritone and piano ], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. VI, no. 2, Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "The sluggard", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

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