Charming pearls, choice flowers | Charming pearls, choice flowers

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by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Vaghe perle, eletti fiori

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Vaghe perle, eletti fiori  
adornatemi la fronte.

Accrescete a mia bellezza
la vaghezza
che a svegliar nei petti amori
ho nel cor le voglie pronte.

Text Authorship:

by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710) [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Vaghe perle, eletti fiori", HWV 6 no. 10 (1709), first performed 1709, from opera Agrippina, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Charming pearls, choice flowers", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-05
Line count: 6
Word count: 25

Charming pearls, choice flowers

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Charming pearls, choice flowers,
adorn ye my brow.

Increase my beauty's charms,
for I have a sudden desire 
in this heart of mine 
to awaken love in others' breasts.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-18
Line count: 6
Word count: 29