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Move la paranzella barbaresca china sull’acqua ad affondar la poppa e le tue mani son come la coppa ch’apre il vento alla vela barbaresca. Vela dell’Adria rossa e gialla a mare che costeggiò bordando la riviera e le tue mani son coppa leggera profumata con alghe del tuo mare! Le mani tue che hanno vene di cielo con un color di perla di medusa e sono gigli e fiori d’asfodelo, serran l’anima mia ch’è una reclusa, fra tanto mare e fra cotanto cielo siccome l’onda verde la medusa.
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- by Pietro Cimara (1887 - 1967), "Visione marina", published 1929. [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Marine vision", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-10-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 88
The little trawler [from Barbary]1 bends on the water to sink the stern and your hands are like the cup that opens the wind to the sail [from Barbary]1 Red and yellow sail of the Adriatic out to sea that sailed along the coast bordering the river and your hands are a light cup scented with seaweed from your sea! Your hands that have veins of heaven with a jellyfish-pearl color and they are lilies and asphodel flowers, they grip my soul which is a prisoner among so much sea and so much sky the jellyfish like the green wave.
1 or "barbaric"
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2018 by Garrett Medlock, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Goffredo Pesci
This text was added to the website: 2018-10-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 100