by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Heureux ennui
Language: French (Français)
Heureux ennui en toi seul je puis
Trouver repos des maux qui me déçoivent,
Et par toi seul mes passions reçoivent
Le doux oubli du tourment où je suis.
Bienheureux soit mon tourment qui n'empire
Et le doux joug sous lequel je respire,
Et bienheureux le penser soucieux
Qui me repaît du doux souvenir d'elle,
Et plus heureux la foudre de ses yeux
Qui cuit mon coeur dans un feu qui me gèle.
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "O fortunate worry", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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O fortunate worry
Language: English after the French (Français)
O fortunate worry, I can in you alone
Find rest from the ills which deceive
And through you alone my passions receive
From the torment I'm in, sweet oblivion.
Fortunate torment, no worse I want,
And fortunate yoke under which I pant
And fortunate the thought however painful
Which feeds me when her memory returns
And the lightning in her eyes, most fortunate of all
Which freezes me while in my heart it burns.
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