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by Olindo Guerrini (1845 - 1916), as Lorenzo Stecchetti

Ho sognato che stavi a' ginocchi
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG PER
Chosen for Diff
Ho sognato che stavi a' ginocchi,
Come un santo che prega il Signor ...
Mi guardavi nel fondo degli occhi,
Sfavillava il tuo sguardo d'amor.

Tu parlavi e la voce sommessa...
Mi chiedea dolcemente mercè...
Solo un guardo che fosse promessa,
Imploravi, curvata al mio piè.

Io tacevo e coll'anima forte
Il desio tentatore lottò.
Ho provato il martirio e la morte
pur mi vinsi e ti dissi di no.

Ma il tuo labbro sfiorò la mia faccia...
E la forza del cor mi tradì.
Chiusi gli occhi,ti stesi le braccia...
Ma, sognavo...E il bel  sogno svanì.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Tosti 

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Warning: many sources have typos on line 2-4 ("curvato") and line 3-1 ("taceva"), for example, La romanza italiana da salotto, ed. by Francesco Sanvitale, Instituto Nazionale Tostiano, 2002, p. 88.


Text Authorship:

  • by Olindo Guerrini (1845 - 1916), as Lorenzo Stecchetti, first published 1877 [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 Enrique Mario Casella (1891 - 1948), "Ho sognato", 1915 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Sogno" [sung text checked 2 times]

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

  • ENG English (Hugo Poon) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • PER Persian (Farsi) (Roxana Rabbani) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Mario Giuseppe Genesi

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 96

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