I feel my heart pierced | I feel my heart pierced

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

Translation © by Michael Berridge

Mi sento il cor traffigere

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Mi sento il cor trafiggere,
presso a morir son io,
e non conosco, o dio,
chi mi traffige il cor.
Non so dove mi volgere,
in vano i numi invoco,
e il duol a poco
degenera in furor!

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1756, appears in La Nitteti, first published 1756 [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 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Mi sento il cor traffigere" [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Michael Berridge) , "I feel my heart pierced", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 38

I feel my heart pierced

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

I feel my heart pierced, 
I am near to death, 
and I do not know, oh god, 
who has pierced my heart. 
I know not which way to turn, 
in vain I call upon the heavens, 
and my pain 
will soon turn to madness!

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1756, appears in La Nitteti, first published 1756
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This text was added to the website: 2017-11-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 44