My sole and ruling passion | My sole and ruling passion

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Mon seul et souverain désir

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Mon seul et souverain désir
Mon confort et mon vray espoir
Je ne porteray riens que noir
Tant que je vous puisse revenir.

Hellas, mon bien tout mon plaisir.
Ne me mettez en non chaloir
  Mon seul et souverain désir
  Mon confort et mon vray espoir

Car je voel a vous obeir
Et si n'ay nul aultre vouloir
Je ne puis riens sans vous voir,
Aultre ne me peut resjouir.

  Mon seul et souverain désir
  Mon confort et mon vray espoir
  Je ne porteray riens que noir
  Tant que je vous puisse revenir.

Text 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 Gilles de Bins, dit Binchois (c1400 - 1460), "Mon seul et souverain désir" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "My sole and ruling passion", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 93

My sole and ruling passion

Language: English after the French (Français)

My sole and ruling passion,
My comfort and my true hope,
I shall wear nothing but black
Until I can see you again.

Alas, my love and all my pleasure,
Do not make me of no importance
  My sole and ruling passion,
  My comfort and my true hope.

For I wish to obey you
And indeed I have no other will,
I can do nothing unless I see you,
No-one else can make me happy.

  My sole and ruling passion,
  My comfort and my true hope,
  I shall wear nothing but black
  Until I can see you again.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 98