Weep with me | Weep with me, you really ought

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Avéques moi pleurer vous devriés bien

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Avéques moi pleurer vous devriés bien,
Tertres bessons, pour la facheuse absence
De cette là, qui fut par sa presence
Vôtre Soleil, ainçois qui fut le mien.

Las! de quels maus, Amour, et de combien
Une beauté ma peine recompense!
Quand plein de honte à toute heure je pense
Qu'en un moment j'ai perdu tout mon bien.

Or, à dieu donc beauté qui me dédaigne:
Quelque rocher, quelque bois, ou montaigne
Vous pourra bien éloigner de mes yeus:

Mais non du coeur, que pront il ne vous suive,
Et que dans vous, plus que dans moi, ne vive,
Comme en la part qu'il aime beaucoup mieus.

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Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Avecques moy pleurer", 1576, published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1, no. 17 [sung text checked 2 times]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Weep with me", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 14
Word count: 106

Weep with me

Language: English after the French (Français)

Weep with me, you really ought
Twin mounds, for the grievous absence
Of that lady who was by her presence
Your Sun, as she was mine.

Alas, with what ills, o Love, and with how many of them
Her beauty repays my devotion!
When full of shame all the while I think
That in a moment I've lost all my treasure.

So, I cede to God then the beauty which disdains me;
May some rock or wood or mountain
separate you far from my view:

but not from my heart, which is ready to follow you
and which lives more in you than in me,
In the one it loves the better.

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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
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