Il tuo sguardo

Colmo ella è di dolcezza, incanta ed innamora
E all'alma dolce ebbrezza infonde, e il cor ristora.
Se la nera pupilla mesta mi figgi in viso
L'amorosa scintilla d'angelo par d'Eliso.

Sia rubello od avaro, mesto egli sia o sereno
Sempre il tuo sguardo è caro, e amore suscita in seno !... 
Se mi guardi mi bei e siem mi fai sofrir
Viver mio ben vorrei d'un tuo sguardo e morir !

Colmo ella è di dolcezza...

Submitted by Jean-Pierre Granger

Authorship

• by Marquesa de Bolaños [ 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 Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909), "Il tuo sguardo", 1888 [tenor and piano], from Sei ballate intime (Sis balades intimes), no. 4. [
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