Ad puerum

Persicos odi, puer, adparatus,
displicent nexae philyra coronae,
mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum
sera moretur.

simplici myrto nihil adlabores
sedulus curo: neque te ministrum
dedecet myrtus neque me sub arta
vite bibentem

by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 BCE-8 BCE) , "Ad puerum", from Carmina Liber I (Odes, Book I), no. 38

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

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by Marcel Trémois , "À un enfant", copyright © 1939 [voice and piano], from Deux odes d'Horace, no. 1, Éditions Maurice Sénart, Paris

Date added to the website: 2009-08-01.

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À un enfant

Je hais, enfant, tes apprêts Persiques; 
les couronnes enlacées de tilleul me déplaisent ; 
n cherehe pas en quel lieu 
se rencontre la rose tardive.

Par un soin inutile n'ajoute rien au simple myrte. 
Le myrte ne messied, ni à toi 
qui me sers, ni à moi buvant 
sous la vigue recourbée.

by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) , "À un enfant", from Oeuvres de Horace, published 1873

a text in Latin by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 BCE-8 BCE) , "Ad puerum", from Carmina Liber I (Odes, Book I), no. 38

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Marcel Trémois , "À un enfant", copyright © 1939 [voice and piano], from Deux odes d'Horace, no. 1, Éditions Maurice Sénart, Paris

Date added to the website: 2009-08-01.