-Marinero soy de amor, y en su piélago profundo navego sin esperanza de llegar a puerto alguno. Siguiendo voy a una estrella que desde lejos descubro, más bella y resplandeciente que cuantas vio Palinuro. Yo no sé adónde me guía, y así, navego confuso, el alma a mirarla atenta, cuidadosa y con descuido. Recatos impertinentes, honestidad contra el uso, son nubes que me la encubren cuando más verla procuro. ¡Oh clara y luciente estrella, en cuya lumbre me apuro!; al punto que te me encubras, será de mi muerte el punto.
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Text Authorship:
- by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616), no title, appears in Don Quixote I, Capítulo XLIII [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Peter Anthony Motteux (1663 - 1718) , no title, Chapter XXXIV ; composed by Edward Elgar, Sir.
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Toss'd in doubts and fears I rove On the stormy seas of love; Far from comfort, far from port, Beauty's prize, and fortune's sport; Yet my heart disdains despair While I trace my leading-star. But reservedness, like a cloud, Does too oft her glories shroud. Pierce to the gloom, reviving light! Be auspicious as you're bright. As you hide or dart your beams, Your adorer sinks or swims!
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Confirmed with Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Servantes Saavedra by Motteux, London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1875, page 225.
Text Authorship:
- by Peter Anthony Motteux (1663 - 1718), no title, Chapter XXXIV [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616), no title, appears in Don Quixote I, Capítulo XLIII
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934), "Muleteer's serenade", 1894 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2020-01-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 68