Mad for love | I shall love you, goddess Venus, if you wish

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by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Las locas por amor

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

-- "Te amaré, diosa Venus, si prefieres
que te ame mucho tiempo y con cordura."
Y respondió la diosa de Citeres:
--"Prefiero, como todas las mujeres,
que me amen poco tiempo y con locura."¹

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Turina

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¹ Turina adds

"Te amaré diosa Venus, te amaré."

Text Authorship:

by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), "Las locas por amor" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949), "Las locas por amor", op. 19 no. 5 (1917), published 1923 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], from Poema en forma de canciones, no. 5, Madrid: UME [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Mad for love", copyright © 2020
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les folles d'amour", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Verrückt vor Liebe", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Jeroen Scholten

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 35

Mad for love

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

"I shall love you, goddess Venus, if you wish
for me to love you for a long time and with good sense."
And the goddess of Cythera responded,
"I prefer, as all women do, 
for you to love me for a short time and with madness."¹

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¹ Turina adds "I shall love you, goddess Venus."

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2020 by Emily Ezust
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a text in Spanish (Español) by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), "Las locas por amor"
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This text was added to the website: 2018-01-04
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Word count: 47