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Grandi cumuli di rose, di giunchiglie, di verbene, di gerani e tuberose, la mia gondola contiene. Essa fila nell'aurora che sorride sul canale, che i palazzi grigi sfiora col suo bacio d'immortale. Presso ad una testa bionda che fra le verbene affonda e di rose s'incorona, il mio capo s'abbandona. E la gondola ci culla tutti e due soavemente; ma la pallida fanciulla nulla vede e nulla sente. Chiuse son le lunghe ciglia sovra il sogno mattutino; ella sembra una giunchiglia sotto il cielo cilestrino. Nell'aurora, fra gli odori dei bei cumuli di fiori, questa gondola mi porta, con la mia diletta, morta.
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Text Authorship:
- by Angiolo Orvieto (1869 - 1967) [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 Renato Brogi (1873 - 1924), "Visione Veneziana" [sung text checked 2 times]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Venetian vision", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 103
Large heaps of roses, Of daffodils, of verbena, Of geraniums and tuberose My gondola contains. She spins in the dawn That smiles on the canal, That touches the grey palaces With its immortal kiss. Near a blonde-haired head That among the verbena sinks And with roses she crowns herself, My head [loses itself]. And the gondola cradles us Both sweetly; But the pale maiden Sees nothing and hears nothing. Closed are the long eyelashes Over the morning dream; She resembles a daffodil Under the celestine sky. In the dawn, among the scents Of the lovely heaps of flowers This gondola carries me With my beloved, dead.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2019 by Garrett Medlock, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Angiolo Orvieto (1869 - 1967)
This text was added to the website: 2019-01-11
Line count: 24
Word count: 106