If I once found life with you to be sweet | If I once found life with you to be sweet

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by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Se dolce m’era già viver

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Se dolce m’era già viver,
cor mio, con te, dolce
per te sarà morire ancora.

E questo si dirà:
quando il suo ben perse,
volle per fedeltà
morire allora.

Text Authorship:

by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765) [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Se dolce m’era già viver", HWV 14 (1721), first performed 1721, from the opera Floridante [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "If I once found life with you to be sweet", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-04-24
Line count: 7
Word count: 29

If I once found life with you to be sweet

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

If I once found life with you to be sweet,
then, my love, to die with you
shall likewise be sweet.

Let it be said that 
when he lost his ladylove,
he desired to die right then
out of faithfulness.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-31
Line count: 7
Word count: 40