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Se meu amor distante Eu sou como um jardim noturno O meu silêncio é o seu perfume A se exalar em vão dentro da noite Oh, volta minha amada! A morte ronda em teu jardim As rosas tremem... E a lua nem parece mais lembrar de mim.
Authorship
- by (Marcus) Vinícius de Moraes (1913 - 1980) [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 Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro (1919 - 1989), "Jardim noturno", 1957 [voice and piano], from Canções de Amor (2a série), no. 1. [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Mirna Rubim) , "Night Garden", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Mirna Rubim
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 47
If my love (is) distant, I feel as if I were a night garden My silent is her fragrance Exhaling in vain in the night Oh, come back my beloved! Death prowls around in your garden The roses tremble... And the moon seems not remember me anymore.
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- a text in Portuguese (Português) by (Marcus) Vinícius de Moraes (1913 - 1980)
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 48