1 â French Poem âHeureux Qui Comme Ulysseâ de Joachim du Bellay â French
Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage,
Ou comme cestuy-lĂ qui conquit la toison,
Et puis est retournĂ©, plein dâusage et raison,
Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son Ăąge !
Quand reverrai-je, hélas, de mon petit village
Fumer la cheminée, et en quelle saison
Reverrai-je le clos de ma pauvre maison,
Qui mâest une province, et beaucoup davantage ?
Plus me plaĂźt le sĂ©jour quâont bĂąti mes aĂŻeux,
Que des palais Romains le front audacieux,
Plus que le marbre dur me plaĂźt lâardoise fine :
Plus mon Loir gaulois, que le Tibre latin,
Plus mon petit Liré, que le mont Palatin,
Et plus que lâair marin la doulceur angevine.
Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, sonnet XXXI, 1558.
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2 â French Poem âHeureux Qui Comme Ulysseâ de Joachim du Bellay â English Translation
Happy he who like Ulysses has returned ?successful from his travels,
Or like he ?who sought the Golden Fleece,
Then returned, ?wise to the world
Live amongst his family to the end of his age!
When shall I see again, alas, of my dear village,
Its chimney smoke, and in which season, ?
Will I see again that little, modest, plot of earth
That is a province to me, and far more than I draw here?
Iâm drawn far more to my forefathers home,
Than to a Roman palace fine and proud,
More than hard marble I prefer fine slate:
My gaul Loir I prefer to latin Tiber,
My little Liré I prefer to Palatine,
And to sea air, soft climate Angevine.?
Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, sonnet XXXI, 1558.
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