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Or dunque addio! Con le pupille ardenti che mi pioveano in cor fiamme ed oblío, con le dolci pupille ancor mi tenti inutilmente: addio! Or che l'autunno muore, or che di noia pallido è il cielo, e lugubre il cipresso regna su 'l colle inseminato, or muoia, muoia l'amore anch'esso! Ahi! senza te sarà un'atroce smania la vita mia; ma nel mio freddo aspetto non vedrai quanto spasimo dilania il mio superbo petto. Oh! potess'io, freddissima ed inerte come l'inverno che avviluppa il mondo, trascorrere le lunghe ore deserte in un oblío profondo; e dileguarmi inconsciamente, al pari di rotta nave abbondonata a l'onda, che a poco a poco pe 'i silenti mari dilungasi e sprofonda.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Or dunque addio! Con le pupille ardenti", from Malinconia, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Linda Godry) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , copyright © 2007, (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: 20
Word count: 116
So farewell! If flashing eyes, which Could burn my heart, flare up and die... If sweet regards in vain try to tempt me: farewell! If autumn dies, if all sorrows Fade away like the sky, and the cypresses' dark silhouette rises on the fertile hill, then dies then dies the exhausted love. Oh! Without you my life will be A terrible disaster, but in my lack-lustre existence I won't even notice when excruciating pain Tears me apart. Oh, my zest for life, you are cold and lifeless now Like the wintertime, which enfolds the world and Covers plains and deserts In deep oblivion. And I perish imperceptibly, like the ship Following its lonely course across the waves, little by little disappearing on the silent sea, Eventually absorbed by the horizon.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938)
This text was added to the website: 2007-01-15
Line count: 20
Word count: 130