LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,102)
  • Text Authors (19,442)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (1824 - 1901)

La dama del rat penat
Language: Catalan (Català) 
Allà baix, al plá, 
un llorer hi havia. 
Sota del llorer, 
bona y adormida, 
una dama jau 
sobre una catifa; 
la catifa es d'or 
y de seda fina; 
la dama es un cel, 
d'hermosa y bonica. 
¡Ay, si ella volgués, 
jo la vetllaria 
de dia y de nit, 
de nit y de dia! 

Mes un rat penat 
que sempre la mira 
prop d'ella s'está 
y en ella s'ensiza 
sens móurers de nit, 
de nit ni de dia. 

—Senyor rat penat, 
per Déu no 'm diria 
si es morta la dama 
que mon cor admira? 
Morta dihuen qu' es, 
mes jo la crech viva.
—No 'n es morta, no, 
sols está dormida.
Ja es despertará
cuant vinga lo dia, 
cuant l’hora n'arribe, cuant l'hora ne sone, 
cuant l'hora ne sia.

Text Authorship:

  • by Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (1824 - 1901) [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 Antoni Massana i Bertran (1890 - 1966), "La dama del rat penat" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Salvador Pila [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2021-04-19
Line count: 32
Word count: 129

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris