Grateful Nymphs, you that are so graceful

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Translation © by Mario Giuseppe Genesi

Leggiarde Ninfe se belle siete

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Leggiarde Ninfe se belle siete 
perche volete sprezzar Amor?
E tu mia Fille, perchè t'involi 
che non consoli il tuo Pastor?
Perchè la fresca d'amor etade 
e la beltade perdi così?
S'oggi d'un bene goder possiamo, 
perchè asspettiamo un altro dì?

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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 Jan Ladislav Dussek, né Václav Jan Dusík (1760 - 1812), "Leggiarde Ninfe se belle siete perche volete sprezzar Amor?", 1804, from 6 Canzonets, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "L'impazienza", published [c1809/10] [ voice and piano ], from Sammlung deutscher und italienischer Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Heft X, no. 3, Leipzig: Bei Ambrosius Kühnel (Bureau de Musique.) [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Mario Giuseppe Genesi) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-22
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Word count: 41

Grateful Nymphs, you that are so...

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Grateful Nymphs, you that are so graceful, 
why do you disdain Love ?
And you, dear Phyllis, why do you volatize
instead of relieving your shephard ?
Why are you wasting vainly the fresh age of Love
and why are you wasting emptily your beauty ?
If we can take advantage of something today
Why shall we expect another day ?

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2009-09-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 57