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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Translation © by Faith J. Cormier
Mignonn', allon voir si la rose
Language: French (Français)
Mignonn', allon voir si la rose Qui ce matin avoit declose Sa robe de pourpr' au soleil, A point perdu, cette vesprée, Le plis de sa robe pourprée, Et son teint au vostre pareil. Las, voyés comm' en peu d'espace, Mignonn', ell' a dessus la place, Las, las, ses beautés laissé cheoir! Ô vrayement maratre nature, Puis qu'une telle fleur ne dure, Que du matin jusques au soir! Donc, si vous me croiés, mignonne: Tandis que vostr' age fleuronne En sa plus verte nouveauté, Cueillés, cueillés vostre jeunesse, Comm' à cette fleur, la viellesse Fera ternir vostre beauté.
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• J. Castro • C. Chaminade • B. Dieren • B. Dieren • W. Hawley • J. Manduell • E. Sauzay • R. WagnerAbout the headline (FAQ)
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Mignonne, allons voir si la rose, Qui ce matin avait desclose Sa robe de pourpre au soleil, N'a point perdu cette vesprée Les plis de sa robe pourprée Et son teint au vôtre pareil. Las! voyez comme en peu d'espace, Mignonne, elle a, dessus la place, Las! Las! ses beautés laissé cheoir! Ô vraiment marâtre nature, Puisqu'une telle fleur ne dure, Que du matin jusques au soir! [Or donc, écoutez-moi,]1 Mignonne, Tandis que votre âge fleuronne [En]2 sa plus verte nouveauté, Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse: [Comme à cette fleur la vieillesse Fera ternir votre beauté.]31 Chaminade, Manduell: "Donc, si vous m'en croyez" (So if you believe me)
2 Chaminade: "Dans"
3 Manduell: "Comme à ceste fleur la vieillesse/ Fera ternir vostre beauté."
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "À Cassandre" [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 Giulio Alary (1814 - 1891), "Mignonne", from 20 Mélodies, Vol. II, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerk [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Mignonne", subtitle: "Ode à Cassandre", published <<1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 1re série, no. 12, Paris, M. Senart, B. Roudanez et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antoine Banès (1856 - 1924), "Mignonne", published [1881] [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd Félix Mackar [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ina Bottelier (b. 1943), "À Cassandre", published 2001, copyright © 1992 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Quatre Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 1, Heiloo (Hollande / Netherlands), Éd. Nieuwe Lente/Red Frog Music [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "Mignonne !", copyright © 1903 [ high voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies de jeunesse (sur des poèmes de Pierre de Ronsard, C. Hugues, Jean Richepin, Paul Bourget, Paul-Armand Silvestre, R. Rousseil, Théophile Gautier, no. 1, Éditions Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge (1924 - 1980), "À Cassandre", 1943, published 1944 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Ronsard, no. 1, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martial Caillebotte (1853 - 1910), "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose" [ high voice and piano ], from Scènes et Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean de Castro (c1540 - c1600), "Mignonn', allon voir si la rose" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944), "Mignonne", published 1894 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean Chardavoine (c1537 - c1580), "Mignonne", 1555?, published 1576 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by André-Marie Cuvelier , "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", 1939 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons pour Hélène, 6ème recueil, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. Delacroix , "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", published [1919] [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet, successeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Colette Delatour (b. 1936) and by Ruth Matarasso , "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", 1997 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les miroirs profonds, no. 13, revised 1998 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amédée Dethou (1811 - 1877), "Mignonne", published [1859] [ high voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies sur des poësies de Victor Hugo et de Ronsard, Bertaut, Desportes et Passerat, Poëtes du XVIè siècle, no. 4, Paris, Imprimerie Bouchard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "À Cassandre", 1917, published 1919 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "À Cassandre", 1924, unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), "À Cassandre", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from 40 Poèmes de Ronsard, no. 35, Paris, Éd Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Guiraud (1837 - 1892), "Mignonne", published [1864] [ soprano and piano ], Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Hawley (b. 1950), "Ode à Cassandre", first performed 1997 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", published [1886] [ reciter and piano ], Paris, Édition Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harold C. King (1895 - 1984), "Mignonne", 1981, from Trois chansons d'amour et une épigramme, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Jules Alexandre Lepot (1844 - 1896), as Léon Delahaye, "Mignonne", published [1884] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Manduell, Sir (1928 - 2017), "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", 1956 [ voice and piano ], from Trois chansons de la Renaissance, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henri Martelli (1895 - 1980), "La rose", op. 20 no. 2, published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Sur des vers de la Pléïade, no. 2, Éd. Deiss & Crépin (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Renzo Massarani (1896 - 1975), "Ode à Cassandre" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Mignonne" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants d'autrefois: recueil des premières mélodies de V. Massé, no. 1, Éditions Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond Michotte (1831 - 1914), "Mignonne", published [1864] [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt-cinq morceaux de chant à une et à plusieurs voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 14, Paris, Éd. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emanuel Moór (1863 - 1931), "Mignonne, allons voir", op. 88a no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from Premier Recueil de Mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édouard Moullé (1845 - 1923), "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", subtitle: "Chanson ancienne (16ème siècle)", published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons tendres du XIIème au XVIIIème siècle, remises au jour et harmonisées par E. Moullé, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset (1828 - 1907), as Vicomtesse de Grandval, "Mignonne", published [1857] [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel de Saint-Quentin (1846 - 1926), "Mignonne" [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies célèbres, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène Sauzay (1809 - 1901), "Mignonne", op. 4 no. 1, published 1845 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eugène Sauzay (1809 - 1901), "Mignonne", published [1845] [ medium voice and piano ], Édition S. Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guido Spinetti (flourished 1897), "À Cassandre", published 1897 [ medium voice and piano ], from Treize poésies de Ronsard, mises en musique par Guido Spinetti, et ornées par Lucien Métivet de vignettes modernes dans le goût ancien, préface de Francisque Sarcey, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Flammarion [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Stekke (1904 - 1970), "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", op. 1 (1926) [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julien Tiersot (1857 - 1936), "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 4, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Trubert (1857 - 1922), "Ode à Cassandre", <<1910 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. L. Grus & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludovic de Vaux, Baron (b. 1845), "Mignonne allons voir", op. 6 (<<1886) [ voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éditions J. Naus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), "Mignonne", WWV. 57 (1839), published 1871 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fürstner, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lex Zwaap (1919 - 1988), as Lex van Delden, "Mignonne", op. 7e (1941-44), published 1997, copyright © 1996 [ low voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bruno Sauer (1861 - 1919) , "Mignonne" ; composed by Richard Wagner.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Mignonne", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 98
Mignonne
Language: English after the French (Français)
Sweetheart, let us see if the rose that only this morning unfolded its scarlet dress in the sun has lost, at vesper-time, the folds of its scarlet dress and its colour, so like yours. Alas! See how rapidly, Sweetheart, she has let her beauty fall all over the place! Nature is truly a cruel stepmother when such a flower only lasts from dawn to dusk! So if you hear me, Sweetheart, while your age flowers in its greenest newness, gather, gather your youth. Age will tarnish your beauty as it has faded this flower.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Faith J. Cormier, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "À Cassandre"
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 94