I consider equal to the sun which I adore | I consider equal to the sun which I adore

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Pareil j'egalle au soleil que j'adore

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Pareil j'egalle au soleil que j'adore
L'autre soleil. Cestuy là de ses yeulx
Enlustre, enflamme, enlumine les cieulx
Et cestuy ci toute la terre honore.

L'art, la Nature et les Astres encore
Les Elements, les Graces et les Dieux
Ont prodigué le parfaict de leur mieux,
Dans son beau jour qui le nostre décore.

Heureux, cent foys heureux, si le destin
N'eust emmuré d'un fort diamantin
Si chaste cuoeur dessoubz si belle face:

Et plus heureux si je n'eusse arraché
Mon cuoeur de moy, pour l'avoyr attaché
De cloudz de feu sur le froid de sa glace.

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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?), "Pareil j'egalle au soleil que j'adore", first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I consider equal to the sun which I adore", 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: 97

I consider equal to the sun which I adore

Language: English after the French (Français)

I consider equal to the sun which I adore
That other sun. Mine with her eyes
Makes the heavens shine, blaze, bright,
The other one honours the whole earth.

Art, nature and the stars too,
The elements, the Graces and the gods
Have generously given of their best, perfection itself,
In her fine day which ornaments our own.

I'd be blessed, a hundred times blessed, if fate
Had not built a wall, hard as diamond,
Around that heart so chaste beneath face so fair:

And still more blessed if I had not torn out
My own heart, so that I could fix it
With iron bolts to her icy coldness.

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-25
Line count: 14
Word count: 110