Las ! que me sert que si parfaitement | Las ! que me sert, que si parfaitement

by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Las ! que me sert, que si parfaitement

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Las ! que me sert, que si parfaitement
 Louas iadis & ma tresse dorée.
 Et de mes yeus la beauté comparee
 À deux Soleils, dont Amour finement

Tira les trets causez de ton tourment ?
 Ou estes vous, pleurs de peu de duree ?
 Et Mort par qui deuoit estre honorée
 Ta ferme amour & itéré serment ?

Donques c'estoit le but de ta malice
 De m'asseruir sous ombre de seruice ?
 Pardonne moy, Ami, à cette fois,

Estant outrée & de despit & d'ire :
 Mais ie m'assure, quelque part que tu sois,
 Qu'autant que moy tu soufres de martire.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Louise Labé, texte établi par Charles Boy, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 106.

Text Authorship:

by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 23 [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 Konrad Boehmer (b. 1941), "Martyre", published 1980 [ soprano, flute, and percussion ], from Je vis - je meurs, no. 4, Darmstadt, Tonos [sung text not yet checked]
by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Las ! que me sert que si parfaitement", op. 206 no. 8 (2006) [ high voice, guitar, and 2 mandolins ], from Le Jardin de Louise Labé, Suite, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Las ! que me sert que si parfaitement", 2018 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux sonnets de Louise Labé, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Oboe Lee (b. 1945), "Las ! que me sert, que si parfaitement", 2021 [ soprano and piano ], from Sept Sonnets de Louise Labé, no. 7, SMP Press [sung text not yet checked]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Rainer Maria Rilke) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 23, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, first published 1917

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-02-10
Line count: 14
Word count: 95