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by Ada Negri (1870 - 1945)

Canto notturno
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Palpita una canzone in lontananza:
Voce è di donna, calda, appassionata.
A me giunge un po' fioca, un po' velata
Tra i melagrani in fior, da la distanza.

Come sacri turiboli d'incenso
Olezzan gli orti ove il tuo canto va,
O sconosciuta sotto il cielo immenso,
O cor che parli nell'oscurità!

Chi sei dunque?  Hai tu errato?  Hai tu sofferto?
Hai tu pianto giammai presso un morente?
Su le macerie de le gioie spente
Non t'infiammò la sete del deserto?

E quale a te mi lega arcano senso
Di fraterna dolcezza e di pietà,
O sconosciuta sotto il cielo immenso,
O cor che batti ne l'oscurità?

Text Authorship:

  • by Ada Negri (1870 - 1945) [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 Vincenzo Billi (1869 - 1938), "Canto notturno" [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Mario Giuseppe Genesi

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 106

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