Pierre de Ronsard Quotes
1524–1585 France
Pierre de Ronsard (11 September 1524 – December 1585) was a French poet.
Also known as: Pierre Ronsard
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Not too high, nor too low—is of all styles the best,
As the epics of Homer and Virgil attest.
I would be the ribbon
That binds your lovely breast,
I would be the necklace
That adorns your ivory throat.
Gather today the roses of life.
Gather the fleet flower of your youth,
Take ye your pleasure at the best;
Be merry ere your beauty flit,
For length of days will tarnish it
Like roses that were loveliest.
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.
When you are very old, at evening, by candelight,
Sitting near the fire, spooling and spinning the wool,
You will say, in wonder, as you sing my verses,
"Ronsard praised me in the days when I was beautiful."