È morta
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Morta e ieri ancor, qui vagheggiai,
il lampeggiar di due bei rai!
Oh! l'amor mio, dove fuggì?
morte spietata me lo rapì,
morta e ier la vagheggiai,
morta, morta!
Più non ascolta nè i giuramenti,
nè il flebil suono de'miei lamenti,
ella è morta.
Or vive un angiol di più nel ciel.
Ieri ancor col suo sospir
il paradiso sembrommi aprir:
fu la sua voce canto seren,
che mi calmava l'affanno in sen,
morta! e ieri ancora stendea la mano
al poverello con volto umano,
era una madre che lagrimosa
il ciel pregava per la pietosa
morta, morta!
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- ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "She is dead", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-04-09
Line count: 19
Word count: 98
She is dead
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
Dead, and yesterday still, here gazed about
the sparkling of two beautiful eyes!
Oh! my love, where has she gone?
Pitiless death stole her from me.
Dead, and yesterday still, she gazed about.
Dead, dead!
She no longer hears the oaths
nor the melodious sound of my laments--
She is dead!
Now one angel more is living in heaven.
Yesterday still with her sighing
Paradise seemed to open to me.
It was her voice, serene song,
that calmed the suffering in my bosom.
Dead! and yesterday she stretched out her hand
to the poor man with a human face.
She was a mother who tearfully
prayed to heaven for the pitiful woman.
Dead, dead!
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2008 by John Glenn Paton, (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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This text was added to the website: 2008-12-30
Line count: 19
Word count: 114
