Irdische und himmlische Liebe | Zur Schönheit meine Blicke suchend gleiten

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Translation by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895)

Gli occhi miei vaghi delle cose belle

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Gli occhi miei vaghi delle cose belle,
E l' alma insieme della sua salute,
Non hanno altra virtute
Ch' ascenda al ciel, che mirar tutte quelle.
Dalle più alte stelle
Discende uno splendore,
Che 'l desir tira a quelle;
E qui si chiama amore.
Nè altro ha gentil core,
Che l' innamori e arda, e che 'l consigli,
Ch' un volto che ne gli occhi lor somigli.

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Text Authorship:

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 107 [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):

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895) ; composed by Hugo Wolf.
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Irdische und himmlische Liebe

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE LIT

Zur Schönheit meine Blicke suchend gleiten,
Es sucht die Seele Seligkeit zugleich;
Den Weg in's Himmelreich
Vermägen sie nur schauend zu beschreiten.
Aus höchsten Sternenweiten
Herniederglänzt ein Schimmer,
Den Trieb empor zu leiten;
Wir nennen's Liebe! Nimmer
Wird And'res zünden! Immer
Wird Gluth und Klarheit edlen Herzen werden
Durch Augen, die wie Sterne sind auf Erden!

Text Authorship:

by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 107
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Irdische und himmlische Liebe", 1897, from Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Michelangelo, no. 4, note: this song was destroyed by Wolf. [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this page: Torsten Roeder

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-13
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Word count: 56