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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Amours me fait desirer
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Amours me fait desirer
Et amer
De cuer si folettement
Que je ne puis esperer
Ne penser
N'ymaginer nullement
Que le dous viaire gent
Qui m'esprent
Me doie joie donner,
S'amours ne fait proprement
Telement
Que je l'aie sans rouver.

S'ay si dur à endurer
Que durer
Ne puis mie longuement;
Car en mon cuer vueil celer
Et porter
Ceste amour couvertement,
Sans requerre aligement,
Qu'à tourment
Vueil miex ma vie finer.
Et si n'ay je pensement
Vraiement
Que je l'aie sans rouver.

Mais desirs fait embraser
Et doubler
Ceste amour si asprement
Que tout me fait oublier,
Ne penser
N'ay fors à li suelement;
Et pour ce amoureusement
Humblement
Langui sans joie gouster.
S'en morray, se temprement
Ne s'assent
Que je l'aie sans rouver.

Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377) [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 Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Amours me fait desirer" [vocal trio], ballade [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Love makes me desire", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 36
Word count: 125

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