Marine vision | The little trawler from Barbary

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by Goffredo Pesci

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Visione marina

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

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.

Text Authorship:

by Goffredo Pesci [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 Pietro Cimara (1887 - 1967), "Visione marina", published 1929. [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Marine vision", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-10-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 88

Marine vision

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

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.

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¹ or "barbaric"

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Goffredo Pesci
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This text was added to the website: 2018-10-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 102