Vi uma estrela tão alta.
Vi uma estrela tão fria!
Vi uma estrela luzindo
Na minha vida vazia.
Era uma estrela tão alta.
Era uma estrela tão fria!
Era uma estrela sozinha
Luzindo no fim do dia.
Por que da sua distância
Para a minha companhia
Não baixava aquela estrela?
Por que tão alta luzia?
E ouvi-a na sombra funda
Responder que assim fazia
Para dar uma esperança
Mais triste ao fim do meu dia.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Heitor Alimonda (1922 - 2002), "A estrela", 1962 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by José Antônio Resende de Almeida Prado (b. 1943), "A estrela", 1998, from Quatro Poemas de Manuel Bandeira, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Helza de Cordoville Camêu (1903 - 1995), "A estrela", op. 25 no. 5 (1943), from Suite lírica, no. 5, voice and piano [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca (b. 1933), "A estrela", 1977 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Isidro Buenaventura Maiztegui Pereiro (1905 - 1996), "A estrela" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francisco Mignone (1897 - 1986), "A estrela", 1942, published 1950 [ voice and piano ], São Paulo: Mangione [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sérgio di Sabbato (b. 1955), "A estrela" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Kilza Setti de Castro Lima (b. 1932), "A estrela", 1961 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ricardo Tacuchian (b. 1939), "A estrela" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Mirna Rubim) , "The Star", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Mirna Rubim
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 75
I saw a so high star
I saw a so cold star
I saw a shining star
In my empty life.
It was a so high star
It was a so cold star
It was a lonely star
Shining in the end of the day.
Why that so distant star
Didn't come down
To make me company?
Why did it shine so high?
And I listen to it in the deep shadow
Answering that it behaved this way
In order to give a sadder hope
To the end of my day.
