Dolce mare | Mormora intorno alla mia navicella

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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Translation © by Enrico Magnani

Douce mer

(Sung text for setting by G. Bizet)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ITA

Murmure autour de ma nacelle,
Douce mer dont les flots chéris,
Ainsi qu'une amante fidèle,
Jettent une plainte eternelle
Sur ces poétique débris.

Que j'aime à flotter sur ton onde,
À l'heure où du haut du rocher
L'oranger, la vigne féconde,
Versent sur ta vague profonde
Une ombre propice au nocher!

Souvent, dans ma barque sans rame,
Me confiant à ton amour,
Comme pour assoupir mon âme,
Je ferme au branle de ta lame
Mes regards fatigués du jour.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.

Note: the Unger score has "Jettant" in stanza 1, line 4, word 1, in all repetitions.

Composition:

Georges Bizet

Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano

Text Authorship:

by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), "Adieux à la mer", written 1820, appears in Nouvelles méditations poétiques, no. 20

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ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Dolce mare", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Dolce mare

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Bizet)

See original

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the French (Français)

Mormora intorno alla mia navicella,
o dolce mare le cui onde delicate,
come un'amante fedele,
piangono un compianto eterno
su questi frammenti di poesia.

Quanto amo fluttuare sulla tua onda, quando dalla cima della roccia
l'arancio, la vite fertile,
spandono sui tuoi flutti profondi
l'ombra, propizia al nocchiero!

Spesso, nella mia barca senza remi,
mi affido al tuo amore,
come per assopire la mia anima,
chiudo, al luccichio della tua onda,
i miei sguardi affaticati dal giorno.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2007 by Enrico Magnani, (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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