by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
Casa Guidi
Language: English
We more and more like our new apartment. When I am tired of the sofa we go out on our terrace, Where there is just room for two to walk -- Walk back and forward till the moon rises! And the moon rises beautif'ly, and drops Down the grey walls of San Felice. We are getting on slowly in the furnishing department. Robert wants a ducal bed for my room -- all gilding and carving. I persuaded him to get a piano instead. We have had an illumination throughout the city -- And you in England can't guess how beautiful A Florentine illumination is! The Pitti Palace opposite us was drawn out in fire! You would have thought that all the stars Out of Heaven had fallen into the piazza. Sometimes he says to me: "Now, Ba, wouldn't it have been wrong If we two had not married?" I do love this house -- there's the truth -- "Like a room in a novel," this room has been called.
Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), "Casa Guidi", from letters written by E. Browning in Florence to her sister Henrietta in England, between 1846 and 1859 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), "Casa Guidi", 1983 [voice and orchestra or piano], from Casa Guidi, no. 1. [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-24
Line count: 19
Word count: 164