Grandi cumuli di rose, di giunchiglie, di verbene, di gerani e tuberose, la mia gondola contiene. Essa fila nell'aurora che sorride sul canale, che i palazzi grigi sfiora col suo bacio d'immortale. Presso ad una testa bionda che fra le verbene affonda e di rose s'incorona, il mio capo s'abbandona. E la gondola ci culla tutti e due soavemente; ma la pallida fanciulla nulla vede e nulla sente. Chiuse son le lunghe ciglia sovra il sogno mattutino; ella sembra una giunchiglia sotto il cielo cilestrino. Nell'aurora, fra gli odori dei bei cumuli di fiori, questa gondola mi porta, con la mia diletta, morta.
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Text Authorship:
- by Angiolo Orvieto (1869 - 1967) [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 Renato Brogi (1873 - 1924), "Visione Veneziana" [sung text checked 2 times]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Venetian vision", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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