LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,862)
  • Text Authors (20,867)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,129)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (1901 - 1964)

Primeiro motivo da rosa
Language: Portuguese (Português) 
Vejo-te em seda e nácar,
E tão de orvalho trêmula,
Que penso ver, efêmera,
Toda a belza em lágrimas
Por ser bela e ser frágil.

Meus olos te ofereço:
Espelho para a face
Que terás, no meu verso,
Quando, depois, que passes,
Jamais ninguém te esqueça.

Então, de seda e nácar,
Toda de orvalho trêmula,
Será eterna.  E efêmero,
O rosto teu, nas lágrimas
Do teu orvalho ... E frágil.

Text Authorship:

  • by Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (1901 - 1964) [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 José Antônio Resende de Almeida Prado (b. 1943), "Primeiro motivo da rosa", 1998, from Quatro motivos da rosa, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Mirna Rubim

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 69

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris