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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Lorsque Bacchus entre chez moi
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Lors que Bacchus entre chez moy
Je chasse incontinent l'esmoy,
Et ravi d'esprit il me semble
Qu'en mes bougettes j'ay plus d'or,
Plus d'argent, et plus de tresor
Que Mide, ny que Crœse ensemble.

Je ne veux rien sinon tourner
Par la danse, et me couronner
Le chef d'un tortis de lierre :
Je foule en esprit les honneurs,
Et les estats des grands Seigneurs
À coups de pied j'escraze à terre.

Page, verse du vin nouveau,
Arrache-moy hors du cerveau
Le soin, par qui le cœur me tombe.
Verse donc pour me l'arracher :
Il vaut mieux yvre se coucher
Dans le lict, que mort dans la tombe.

Note: the third stanza seems to be a variant of the second stanza of Ores que je suis dispos.


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), "Lorsque Bacchus entre chez moi", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 34, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "When Bacchus possesses me", 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: 18
Word count: 107

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