All day long I weep, poor me

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Tutto lo giorno piango

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Tutto lo giorno piango, hoime meschino,
E poi la note, quando sto a dormire,
M’appar’ in songno chi mi fa’ morire,
Altier’ e bell’ e con volto divino,
Con dard’ in man’, e con arc’ e saetta,
Come guerriera che vuol far vendetta:

Et io, tremendo, m’inchino avant’ ella
Con occhi bassi, et le dico piangendo:
“Non m’amazzar crudel, ch’io sto dormendo.”
E essa all’ hor piu bell’ e piu crudella
Diventa e par che cossi dica forte:
“O veglio dorm’io ti daro la morte.”

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Tutto lo giorno piango", first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from 25 Chansons à 4 parties, Livre 3, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 85

All day long I weep, poor me

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

All day long I weep, poor me,
And then at night, when I am sleeping,
She who makes me die appears in my dreams, 
Haughty and beautiful, with a godlike face,,
A dart in her hand, and a bow and arrow
Like a warrior who seeks vengeance:

And I, trembling, bow before her,
My eyes lowered, and weeping I say:
“Do not strike me down, cruel one, as I am sleeping.”
And she then becomes more beautiful and more cruel
And seems to speak thus, loudly:
“Whether you wake or sleep, I shall give you death.”

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist and misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 96