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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Quand je pense à ce jour, où pres d'une...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Quand je pense à ce jour, où pres d'une fonteine
Dans le jardin royal savourant ta douceur,
Amour te descouvrit les segrets de mon cœur,
Et de combien de maux j'avois mon ame pleine:

Je me pasme de joye, et sens de veine en veine
Couler ce souvenir, qui me donne vigueur,
M'aguise le penser, me chasse la langueur,
Pour esperer un jour un fin à ma peine.

Mes sens de toutes parts se trouverent contens,
Mes yeux en regardant la fleur de ton Printems,
L'oreille en t'escoutant: et sans ceste compagne,

Qui tousjours noz props tranchoit par le milieu,
D'aise au ciel je volois, et me faisois un Dieu:
Mais tousjours le plaisir de douleur s'accompagne.

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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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Quand je pense à ce jour, où près d'une fontaine", 1955 [ vocal duet for tenor and bass a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "Quand je pense à ce jour", op. 41 (Neuf Poésies de Ronsard) no. 8, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 8, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [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) , "When I think of that day", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

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