Un lungo, lungo sonno | Un lungo, lungo sonno, un sonno sontuoso

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Sleeping

Language: English

Our translations: GER ITA

A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --
An independent one.

Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) [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):

by Daniel Gilliam (b. 1978), "Sleeping", 2003, from Three Nocturnes, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Schlafen", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Un lungo, lungo sonno", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

Un lungo, lungo sonno

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English

Un lungo, lungo sonno, un sonno sontuoso
Che mai farà mostra di aurore,
con sbatter di palpebre o stirarsi di membra --
Ad ogni cosa straniero.
 
Vi fu mai inerzia più grande?
Protetti da una stanza di pietra
Godersi il passare dei secoli
Senza uno sguardo per i meriggi lassù?

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 49