Quando dentro al tuo seno

Quando dentro il tuo seno
Vibra amoroso sguardo
Il primo aurato dardo
Oh che gioir,
Ma quando di veleno
Arma le punte acute,
e ti nega salute,
Oh, che languir.

Quando quel vago riso
mira con dolci rai
i tuoi pianti, i tuoi guai
oh che gioir
ma quando in altri fiso
gir il tuo mal in canto
prende a riso il tuo pianto
oh che languir.
 
Quando donna onorata
senti ch'ai tuoi sospiri
pietosa risospiri
oh che gioir
ma quando finge ingrata
non udir i lamenti
non veder i tormenti
oh che languir.

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

• by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Quando dentro al tuo seno", published 1651 [chorus], from Libro IX: Madrigali e canzonette a due e tre voci, no. 9, madrigal [
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