Pierre de ronsard quotes about life

Pierre de Ronsard (11 September1524 – December 1585) was a French poet.

Quotes

• Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
  Qui ce matin avoit desclose
  Sa robe de pourpre au Soleil,
  A point perdu ceste vesprée
  Les plis de sa robe pourprée.
  Et son teint au vostre pareil.
  • Darling, each morning a blooded rose
    Lures the sunlight in, and shows
    Her soft, moist and secret part;
    See now, before you go to bed,
    Her skirts replaced, her darker red:
    A color like your own, sweetheart.
  • "À Cassandre (À Sa Maistresse)", st.

    1, Odes (1550); as translated by Robert Mezey in The Kenyon Review, vol. 19, no.

    Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

    1 (1957), reprinted in The Lovemaker: Poems (1961) with the following alterations: "deeper" for "darker" (l. 5), "A colour much like yours, dear heart." (l. 6)

• Tandis que vostre âge fleuronne
  En sa plus verte nouveauté,
  Cueillez, cueillez vostre jeunesse:
  Comme à ceste fleur la vieillesse
  Fera ternir vostre beauté.
  • Gather the fleet flower of your youth,
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