Le portrait d'une enfant
Language: French (Français)  after the French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG ENG
Quand je voy tant de couleurs
Et de fleurs
Qui esmaillent un rivage,
Je pense voir le beau teint
Qui es peint
Si vermeil en son visage.
Quand je sens parmy les prez
Diaprez
Les fleurs dont la terre est pleine,
Lors je fais croire à mes sens,
Que je sens
La douceur de son haleine.
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Portrait of a girl", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Portrait of a girl", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 12
Word count: 56
Portrait of a girl
Language: English  after the French (Français)
When I see so many colours
And flowers
Bejewel a river bank
I seem to see the fair colour
Which is painted
So pinkly in her face.
When I see amid the meadows
Scattered
The flowers which fill the earth
Then I convince my senses
That I can feel
The softness of your breath.
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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 54