I am in the midst of the ocean (Trapassi) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Sono in mar; non veggo sponde

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Sono in mar; non veggo sponde;
mi confonde il mio periglio.
Ho bisogno di consiglio,
di soccorso, di pietà.
 
Improvvisa è la tempesta
né mi resta aita alcuna,
se al furor della fortuna
m’abbandona l’amistà.

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in La Nitteti [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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This text was added to the website: 2018-07-14
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Word count: 35

I am in the midst of the ocean

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

I am in the midst of the ocean,
and I see no shore.
My danger confounds me.
I am deprived of counsel,
aid, and mercy.

This sudden storm
leaves me no help at all,
if friendship abandons me
to the storms Fortune sends.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in La Nitteti

This text was added to the website: 2018-07-19
Line count: 9
Word count: 43