Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas (1544, Monfort – July 1590, Mauvezin) was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe for his divine poetry, particularly L'Uranie (1584), Judit (1584), La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), and La Seconde Semaine (1584-1603).
Life
Relatively little is known about Du Bartas’ life. Born in 1544, Guillaume Sallustre descended from a family of wealthy merchants in Montfort (in the Armagnac region). His family name later became ‘Saluste’ rather than 'Sallustre', perhaps to invite comparison with the Roman historian Sallust. He was possibly a student at College de Guyenne in Bordeaux (Michel de Montaigne’s school), and studied law in Toulouse under Jacques Cujas: he became a doctor of law in 1567, and subsequently a judge in Montfort in 1571. He gained the lordship of nearby Bartas (becoming Sieur Du Bartas) on his father’s death in 1566. He married Catherine de Manas, a local noblewoman, in 1570, and they had four daughters together: Anne, Jeanne, Marie and Isabeau.
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Islands & Shores
by: DeporteesI figured out why some days feels like ages
I figured out why some rooms feel like cages
you left us with no number we could call
you left us with no sense of hope at all
I won't mind a little bit of decieving
if it got me back into some believing
something gets to come when something gives
something gets to die when something lives
Who's looking out for this love
who's looking out for us
who's looking out for this love
who's looking out for us
things are gonna be so hard on you,
no matter what they say
you're gonna need some purpose,
when standing in harm's way
You won't let anybody tell you what to do
sometimes I think that's exactly what you ought to
in a world where everyone is an island
I find myself there waiting at the shore
someplace to stand,
someplace to fall,
a place to call our own
I am getting ready to depend
who's looking out for this love
who's looking out for us
who's looking out for this love
who's looking out for us
things are gonna be so hard on you,
no matter what they say
you're gonna need some purpose,
when standing in harm's way
If it's up to me I'll give you all the oceans
all the money and the factories and banks
I'll give you all the love and deep devotion
all the highways and the airways and the tanks
I'll give you time,
I'll give you tears and laughter
You should not hesitate to raise the stakes
I can see us rise to the ocation