If you cannot bestow

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

S'altro che làgrime

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

S'altro che làgrime  
per lui non tenti,
tutto il tuo piangere
non gioverà.

A questa inutile
pietà che senti
oh, quanto è simile
la crudeltà.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in La Clemenza di Tito

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "S'altro che làgrime", K 621 no. 21 (1791), first performed 1791 [ flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, soprano voice, strings ], from opera La clemenza di Tito, no. 21 [sung text checked 1 time]

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If you cannot bestow

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

If you cannot bestow
upon him anything but your tears,
all of your weeping
will be for naught.

To this useless pity you feel,
O, how similar is outright cruelty!

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Translations of title(s):
"S'altro che lagrime" = "If you cannot bestow"
"S'altro che lacrime" = "If you cannot bestow"

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