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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Voicy le bois
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Voici le bois que ma sainte Angelette
Sur le printemps réjouit de son chant :
Voici les fleurs où son pied va marchant
Quand à soi-même elle pense seulette.

Voici la [prée et la]1 rive mollette,
Qui [prend vigueur]2 de sa main la touchant
Quand pas à pas en son sein va cachant
Le bel émail de l’herbe nouvelette.

Ici chanter, là pleurer je la vis,
Ici sourire, et là je fus ravi
[De ses discours par lesquels je desvie :]3

Ici [s’asseoir, là je la vis]4 danser :
Sur le métier d’un si vague penser,
Amour ourdit les trames de ma vie.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Gouvy 

L. Gouvy sets lines 1-4, 5-8, 9, 12, 10-11, 13-14

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Choix de poésies (Ronsard), Paris, Didot, 1862.

1 Gouvy: "prée, la"
2 Gouvy: "reverdit"
3 Gouvy: "Des discours de mon amie."
4 Gouvy: "s'asseoir et là"

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 Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Voicy le bois", op. 41 (Neuf Poésies de Ronsard) no. 4, published 1876, lines 1-4,5-8,9,12,10-11,13-14 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 4, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "这是树林", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Here is the wood", copyright © 2012, (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: 105

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