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O del mio amato ben perduto incanto! Lungi è dagli occhi miei chi m'era gloria e vanto! Or per le mute stanze sempre lo [cerco e]1 chiamo con pieno il cor di speranze? Ma cerco invan, chiamo invan! E il pianger m'è sì caro, che di pianto sol nutro il cor. Mi sembra, senza lui2, triste ogni loco. Notte mi sembra il giorno; mi sembra gelo il foco. Se pur talvolta spero di darmi ad altra cura, sol mi tormenta un pensiero: Ma, senza lui, che farò? Mi par così la vita vana cosa senza il mio ben.
1 Garrett: "cerco, sempre lo"
2 Male singers sometimes change this to "lei" so that the subject of the song is female rather than male.
Text Authorship:
- by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941) [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 Stefano Donaudy (1879 - 1925), "O del mio amato ben", published <<1918, from 36 Arie di Stile Antico, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marques L. A. Garrett (b. 1984), "O del mio amato ben", 2013 [ voice and piano ], from A Love Cycle: Songs of Happiness, Heartbreak, Hope, and Healing, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Donna (Bareket) Breitzer) , "Oh, lost enchantment of my dearly beloved", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- PER Persian (Farsi) (Roxana Rabbani) , "آه، محبوب نازنینم", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "Ay de mi bien amado", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Donna (Bareket) Breitzer
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 101
¡Ay! de mi bien amado he perdido el encanto! Lejos está de mis ojos quien me era gloria y orgullo. Ahora por las silenciosas habitaciones siempre la busco y llamo con el corazón lleno de esperanzas... Pero busco en vano, llamo en vano. Y el llorar me es tan querido, que sólo de llanto nutro el corazón. Me parece, sin él, triste cada lugar. La noche me parece el día; el hielo me parece fuego. Si a veces espero darme cura, sólo me atormenta un pensamiento: pero, sin él, ¿qué haré? Me parece así la vida cosa vana sin mi amado.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2010 by Juan Henríquez Concepción, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)
This text was added to the website: 2010-06-01
Line count: 18
Word count: 101