Dream or wake, there's no respite

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by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901)

Translation © by Kairui (Kerry) Zhou

Sueñe ó vele, no hay respiro

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG

Sueñe ó vele, no hay respiro,
Para mi ardiente deseo,
Pues sueño cuando te miro
Y cuando sueño te veo.

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Confirmed with Obras Escogidas de D. Ramon de Campoamor (de la Academia Española). Tomo I. Ternezas y Flores. -- Sonetos. -- Fábulas. -- Cantares. -- Doloras, Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1885, page 144.

Text Authorship:

by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), no title, appears in Cantares, in Amorosos, no. 9 [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 Julio Osma (d. 1938), "Sueñe ó vele, no hay respiro", from Cantares de mi tierra, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Kairui (Kerry) Zhou) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Dream or wake, there's no respite

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

Dream or wake, there's no respite,
For my burning desire,
For I dream when I look at you,
And when I dream, I see you.

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a text in Spanish (Español) by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), no title, appears in Cantares, in Amorosos, no. 9
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-24
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Word count: 25