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by Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595)

Colei che sovra ogni altra amo ed onoro
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Colei che sovra ogni altra amo ed onoro
fiori coglier vid'io su questa riva;
ma non tanti la man cogliea di loro
quanti fra l'erbe il bianco piè n'apriva.
Ondeggiavano sparsi i bei crin d'oro,
ond'Amor mille e mille lacci ordiva;
e l'aura del parlar dolce ristoro
era del foco che de gli occhi usciva.
Fermò suo corso il rio, pur come vago
di fare specchio a quelle chiome bionde
di se medesmo ed a que' dolci lumi;
e parea dire: «A la tua bella imago,
se pur non degni solo il re de' fiumi,
rischiaro, o donna, queste placid'onde».

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Text Authorship:

  • by Torquato Tasso (1544 - 1595), no title [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 Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Sonett", 1950 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Vier Canzonen, no. 2, Bärenreiter [ sung text not verified ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-03-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 100

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