Speak | Do not make me suffer any longer in doubt

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Parla

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Più nel dubbio non farmi penare
Mi conforti una dolce parola,
Io la implora per tutte le care
Tue promesse del passato!

Mi ripeti d'amare me sola
Ch'ancor sono il tuo primo pensiero,
Con un detto ti mostra sincero
Al mio core affanato, al mio cor affanato!

Parla! Parla! Parla!
Ah! Ah! Si! Ah!
Parla mio ben, mio ben parla

Mi sorridi, mi parla, o mio ben,
Santa gioja, mi versa nel sen!
Ah! Sorridi, sorridi, mio ben!

Ah! Un altro cor del mio più fedel,
Non troverai, no!
Ah! Tanto amor mostrarti crudel,
Tu non potrai, ah! Ah! Ah! No!

Ogni tormento di gelosia, ah!
Un sol tuo detto svanir farà, si!
Un tuo detto, ah!

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Luigi Arditi (1822 - 1903), "Parla" [ voice, piano or orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Speak", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Marie-Claire Herman , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2007-03-07
Line count: 21
Word count: 117

Speak

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Do not make me suffer any longer in doubt,
Comfort me with a sweet word,
I beseech it for all your dear
Promises of the past!

You repeat that you love me alone,
That I am still your first thought,
With a [word] you are shown
To my troubled heart to be sincere!

Speak!
Ah! Yes!
Speak my beloved, my beloved, speak!

Smile at me, speak to me, oh my beloved,
Holy joy, pour me into [your] breast!
Ah! Smile, smile my beloved!

Ah! Another heart more faithful than mine
You will not find, no!
Ah! You will not be able to show yourself cruel [with] so much love, ah! No!

Every jealous torment, ah!
Only one of your [words] will make vanish, yes!
One of your [words], ah!

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-15
Line count: 20
Word count: 129