Like ice in every vein

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Gelido in ogni vena

(Sung text for setting by G. Händel)

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Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Gelido in ogni vena
 Scorrer mi sento il sangue.
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M' ingombra di terror.
 
E per maggior mia pena
vedo che fui crudele
A un'anima fedele,
A un innocente cor.

Composition:

Georg Friedrich Händel

Siroe, re di Persia

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1726, appears in Siroe, re di Persia

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Like ice in every vein

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Händel)

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Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Like ice in every vein,
I feel my blood flow, 
the shade of my lifeless son
falls over me; I’m terrorized.

And worse than that pain,
I see that I was cruel
to an innocent soul,
to the heart of my heart.

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