Pendant que vostre main docte...

Remy Belleau 1528 (Nogent-le-Rotrou) – 1577 (Paris)



Pendant que vostre main docte, gentille et belle
Va triant dextrement les odorantes fleurs
Par ces prez esmaillez en cent et cent couleurs,
Par le sacré labeur de la troupe immortelle :

Gardez qu'Amour tapy sous la robe nouvelle
De quelque belle fleur n'evente ses chaleurs,
Et qu'au lieu de penser amortir vos douleurs,
D'un petit traict de feu ne vous les renouvelle.

En recueillant des fleurs la fille d'Agenor
Fut surprise d'Amour, et Prosperine encor
L'une fille de roy, l'autre toute déesse.

Il ne faut seulement que soufler un bien peu
Le charbon eschauffé, pour allumer un feu,
Duquel vous ne pourriez enfin estre maistresse.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBA ABBA CCB XXB
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 636
Words 107
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

Remy Belleau

Remy Belleau was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones. Remy was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou. A nobleman, he did his studies under Marc Antoine Muret and George Buchanan. As a student, he became friends with the young poets Jean de La Péruse, Étienne Jodelle, Jean de La Taille and Pierre de Ronsard and the latter incorporated Remy into the "La Pléiade", a group of revolutionary young poets. Belleau's first published poems were odes, les Petites Inventions, inspired by the ancient lyric Greek collection attributed to Anacreon and featuring poems of praise for such things as butterflies, oysters, cherries, coral, shadows, turtles. In the 1560s, Belleau tried his hand at a mixed verse and prose form modeled on the Italian pastoral Arcadia by Jacopo Sannazaro: this became La Bergerie, in which narration is interspersed with poems on love and the countryside. His last work, les Amours et nouveaux Eschanges des Pierres precieuses, is a poetic description of gems and their properties inspired by medieval and renaissance lapidary catalogues. He died in Paris. more…

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