LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (21,190)
  • Text Authors (21,328)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,136)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by François Villon (1431 - 1463)

Item, donne à ma bonne mère
Language: Middle French 
Item, donne à ma bonne mère
Pour saluer nostre Maistresse,
Qui pour moy eut douleur amère,
Dieu le sçait, et mainte tristesse ;
Autre chastel ou fosteresse
N’ay où retraire corps et ame,
Quand sur moy court male destresse,
Ne ma mère, la povre femme !

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de François Villon, Texte établi par éd. préparée par La Monnoye, mise à jour, avec notes et glossaire par M. Pierre Jannet, Paris, A. Lemerre éd., 1876.


Text Authorship:

  • by François Villon (1431 - 1463), no title, appears in Le Grand Testament, no. 79 [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 Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Item, donne à ma bonne mère", published 1927 [ low voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 7ème volume, no. 9, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-09-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris