Just heaven, if you feel (Haym, set by (Georg Friedrich Händel)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Se pietà di me non senti

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Se pietà di me non senti
giusto ciel io morirò.

Tu da' pace a' miei tormenti
o quest'alma spirerò.

Authorship

by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Se pietà di me non senti", HWV 17 (1724), first performed 1724 [strings, bassoon, soprano voice, and continuo], from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, no. 29. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Just heaven, if you feel", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-02
Line count: 4
Word count: 19

Just heaven, if you feel

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Just heaven, if you feel
no pity for me,
I shall die.

I shall give up the ghost
if you do not pacify my torment.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

This text was added to the website: 2018-08-03
Line count: 5
Word count: 25