What pleasure to a pious heart | What pleasure to a pious heart

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by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Qual piacer a un cor pietoso

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Qual piacer a un cor pietoso  
l'apportar sollievo a' miseri:
prendi tu ancora, prendi.
Ma rassembra tormentoso
il veder fra turbe tante
che vi manchi un zelo amante,
che il lor stato almen commiseri.

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), "Qual piacer a un cor pietoso", HWV 6 no. 5 (1709), first performed 1709, from opera Agrippina, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "What pleasure to a pious heart", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-05
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Word count: 34

What pleasure to a pious heart

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

What pleasure to a pious heart
is it to bring solace to the poor!
Take this; you, too! take it!
It seems such a torment
to see among such a big crowd
nobody who will support you zealously,
nobody who will share in your state!

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
Line count: 7
Word count: 45