Eco [de'miei]1 lamenti,
Cetra fedel, che tenti?
Spiegare il mio dolore
Non può lo stesso amore.

Flebil tu cedi invano
All'ingegnosa mano,
Querele imiti e pianti
Con le corde tremanti.

Rispondi a'miei sospiri
Con replicati giri;
Ma quei, che rende il suono
I miei sospir non sono.

[Fille l'amato]2 bene
Lungi è da [queste arene]3;
Spiegare il mio dolore
Non puó lo stesso Amore.

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Confirmed with Poesie di Giovanni Fantoni toscano fra gli Arcadi Labindo, Pisa, 1800, page 188.

¹ Glinka: "di miei"
² Glinka: "Fini amato"
³ Glinka: "questa sirene"

Text Authorship:

• by Giovanni Fantoni (1755 - 1807), "Alla cetra" [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 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Alla cetra", from Due Canzonette Italiane, no. 2, also set in Russian (Русский) [ sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ; composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Michael Berridge) , "To the lyre", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
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