Watching You Seated Beside Your Cousin

Poem by Pierre De Ronsard Collection Sonnets for HélèneThemes LovePeriod 16th century

Watching you seated beside your cousin,
Beautiful as an Aurora, and you like a Sun,
I thought I saw two flowers of one same matching hue,
Growing in beauty, the one neighbor to the other.

The chaste, holy, beautiful and unique Angevine,
Quick as a flash cast her eye upon me.
You, like a lazy one and full of sleep,
With a single little glance did not deem me worthy.

You kept to yourself alone with lowered face,
Pensive all to yourself, loving nothing but yourself,
Disdaining everyone with a gathered brow.

Like one who does not want to be sought or loved.
I feared your silence and grew pale all over from it,
Fearing that my greeting might have offended your eye.

Pierre de Ronsard

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