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Coi pensieri malinconici No te star a tormentar: Vien con mi, montemo in gondola, Andaremo fora in mar. Passaremo i porti e l'isole Che circonda la cità: El sol more senza nuvole E la luna spuntarà. Oh! che festa, oh! che spetacolo, Che presenta sta laguna, Quando tuto xe silenzio, Quando sluse in ciel la luna; E spandendo i cavei morbidi Sopra l'acqua indormenzada, La se specia, la se cocola, Come dona inamorada! Tira zo quel velo e scòndite, Che la vedo comparir! Se l'ariva a descoverzarte, La se pol ingelosir! Sta baveta, che te zogola Fra i caveli imbovolai, No xe turbia de la polvere De le rode e dei cavai. Vien! Se in conchigli ai Greci Venere Se sognava un altro di, Forse visto i aveva in gondola Una zogia come ti, Ti xe bela, ti xe zovene, Ti xe fresca come un fior; Vien per tuti le so lagreme; Ridi adesso e fa l'amor!
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Pagello (1807 - 1898) [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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Sopra l'acqua indormenzada", 1901, published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Venezia, chansons en dialecte vénitien, no. 1, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 2 times]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Above the sleeping water", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "Sur l'eau endormie", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Effimia Gianniou) , "Πάνω στο νερό που ησυχάζει", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 32
Word count: 157
With melancholy thoughts Do not [keep] tormenting yourself: Come with me, let us get into [a] gondola, Let us go far [into the] sea. Let us pass the ports and the islands Which surround the city: The sun dies [cloudlessly] And the moon appears. Oh! what [a] party, oh! what [a] show That this lagoon presents, When all is silent, When shines in [the] sky the moon; And spreading her soft hair Above the sleeping water, She looks at herself, she pampers herself, Like [a] woman in love! Pull that veil [over] and conceal yourself, [So that I may] see her appear! If she [comes] to discover you, She [may] make herself jealous! This [gentle] breeze, which plays Among your wavy hair, Is not disturbed [by] the dust Of the wheels and of the hair. Come! If in shells to the Greeks Venus [Appeared in] another [time], Perhaps they saw in [a] gondola A [beauty] like you, You are beautiful, you are young, You are fresh as a flower; Come for all [the] tears; Laugh now and make love!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian - Venetian (dialect) to English copyright © 2019 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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Based on:
- a text in Italian - Venetian (dialect) by Pietro Pagello (1807 - 1898)
This text was added to the website: 2019-02-15
Line count: 32
Word count: 179