The alpine shepherdess | I'm the pretty sheperdess

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by Carlo Pepoli, Conte (1796 - 1881)

Translation © by Johann Gaitzsch

Son bella pastorella

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: CHI ENG SPA

Son bella pastorella,
che scende ogni mattino
ed offre un cestellino 
di fresche frutta e fior.

Chi viene al primo albore
avrà vezzose rose
E poma rugiadose, 
venite al moi gairdin,
ahu, ahu...

Chi del notturno orrore
Smari la buona via, 
alla capanna mia 
ritrovera il cammin.

Venite o passagiero,
La pastorella è qua,
Ma il fior del suo pensiero
Ad uno solo darà!
Ahu, ahu...

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Text Authorship:

by Carlo Pepoli, Conte (1796 - 1881) [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 Gustave Léon Huberti (1843 - 1910), "La pastorella dell'Alpi" [ voice and piano ], from Six romances et deux morceaux , no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "La pastorella delle Alpi" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (YiLing Chaing) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Johann Gaitzsch) , "The alpine shepherdess", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne) , "La berger des alpes", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
GER German (Deutsch) (G. Friedrich) , "Die Alpenhirtin", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
SPA Spanish (Español) (Aminta Iriarte) , "La pastorcita de los Alpes", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Johann Gaitzsch

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 66

The alpine shepherdess

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

 I'm the pretty sheperdess
 Coming down every morning
 I offer a little basket
 With fresh fruit and flowers.

 Whoever comes at dawn
 Will have some pretty roses
 And dew sprinkled apples
 Come all to my garden
 Ahu, ahu ...

 Whoever in night's frightness
 Looses his way
 At my little hut
 Will find his path again.

 Come, o traveller
 The sheperdess is here
 But her tenderest thoughts
 Adress to one alone!
 Ahu, ahu...

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Carlo Pepoli, Conte (1796 - 1881)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 72