by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865)
Oh! se tu fossi meco
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
Oh! se tu fossi meco Sulla barchetta bruna, Che al raggio della luna Vedi pel mar fuggir! Oh! se tu fossi meco, Ti rapirei, mio Bene, Alle infelici arene Dove dobbiam languir. Soli per l'ampio seno Dell'Oceán dormente, Soli del ciel tacente Sotto l'immenso vel, Libero pianto almeno Sparger potremmo uniti, Lamenti non traditi Da testimon crudel. E in rammentar gli orrori Di questa vita oscura, La tua, la mia sventura, Ed il commun soffrir; Stancati vïatori, Noi chiederemmo al mare, O porto per posare, O abisso per morir.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Liriche del Cavalier Felice Romani, Volume 2, Napoli, Tipografia di Francesco Saverio Tornese, 1858, page 37.
Text Authorship:
- by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865), "Il desiderio", subtitle: "Romanza II", written 1824 [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 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Il desiderio" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Il desiderio", op. 23 no. 6, published 1843 [ voice and piano ], from Sei pezzi per canto = Sechs Gesänge für eine Signstimme, no. 6, Milan: Ricordi / Berlin & Paris: Schlesinger, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Ti rapirei!", 1873, published 1873 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Christoph Grünbaum (1785 - 1870) ; composed by Ferdinand von Hiller.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anne Evans) , "Desire", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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