Night | On the fantastic garden

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by Ada Negri (1870 - 1945)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Notte

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Sul giardino fantastico
Profumato di rosa
La carezza de l'ombra
            Posa.

Pure ha un pensiero e un palpito
La quiete suprema,
L'aria come per brivido
           Trema.

La luttuosa tenebra
Una storia di morte
Racconta alle cardenie
          Smorte?

Forse perché una pioggia
Di soavi rugiade
[Entro socchiusi]¹ petali
          Cade,

Su l'ascose miserie
E su l'ebbrezze perdute,
Sui muti sogni e l'ansie
          Mute.

Su le fugaci gioie
Che il disinganno infrange
La notte le sue lacrime
         Piange...

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¹ Respighi: "Entro i socchiusi"

Text Authorship:

by Ada Negri (1870 - 1945), "Notte" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936), "Notte", P. 97 no. 1 (1912), published 1912 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sei Liriche, seconda serie, no. 1, Éd. Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Night", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 75

Night

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

On the fantastic garden
Perfumed by rose
The caress of a shadow -
            Rests.

Nevertheless having a thought and a pulse
Supreme quiet,
The air, as if shivering -
           Trembles.

Does the mournful darkness
A story of death
Tell to the gardenias -
          So pale?

Maybe it’s because a torrent
Of delicate dewdrops
Into half-closed petals -
          Falls,

On concealed troubles
And on once intoxicating losses,
On voiceless dreams and anxieties -
          Mute.

Over the fleeting joys
That disappointment smashes
Night, her tears -
         Weeps...

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Ada Negri (1870 - 1945), "Notte"
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This text was added to the website: 2020-03-28
Line count: 24
Word count: 79