Sore wounded I am by a penetrating dart (Anonymous, set by (Guillaume Dufay)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Navré je sui d'un dart penetratif

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

Navré je sui d'un dart penetratif
Qui m'a percié le cuer de part en part;
C'est ma dame qui par son doulx regart
Aimable me l'a point jusques au vif.

Tout souellement, se confort n'est hastif,
En verité joye de moy depart.
  Navré [je sui d'un dart penetratif
  Qui m'a percié le cuer de part en part.]

Las, que feray? Se Dangier m'est actif,
J'auray Refus contre moy, main et tart.
Ne scay qui puist la pointure du dart
En moy garir senon le vray motif.

  Navré je sui [d'un dart penetratif
  Qui m'a percié le cuer de part en part;
  C'est ma dame qui par son doulx regart
  Aimable me l'a point jusques au vif.]

Authorship

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Navré je sui d'un dart penetratif" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Sore wounded I am by a penetrating dart", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 116

Sore wounded I am by a penetrating dart

Language: English after the French (Français)

Sore wounded I am by a penetrating dart
Which has pierced my heart from one side to the other;
It is my lady who by her sweet and friendly glance
Has struck me to the quick.

All alone, if comfort does not come quickly,
In truth my joy departs from me.
  Sore wounded I am by a penetrating dart
  Which has pierced my heart from one side to the other.

Ah, what shall I do? If the Pain of Love comes against me,
I shall have Refusal against me, short and sharp(?)
I do not know who can cure the wound of this dart
In me, unless the one who truly made it.

Sore wounded I am by a penetrating dart
Which has pierced my heart from one side to the other;
It is my lady who by her sweet and friendly glance
Has struck me to the quick.

Authorship

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by David Wyatt, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 149