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by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938)

Notte bianca
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
La mia lunga romanza in mi minore
va per la calma de la notte bianca:
io son già fioco, la chitarra è stanca;
ma voi non ascoltate, e il canto muore.

Vi traggono, Madonna, i sogni a 'l fiume
che rispecchia ne l'acque alti i roseti,
ove dileguan sotto il mite lume
le coppie de le amanti e de i poeti?

"O voi su'l letto morbido supina
mentre sorgono i fiori a pispigliar
su da li antichi vasi de la China,
voi sommerge la fresca onda lunar?"

La mia lunga romanza in mi minore
va per la calma de la notte bianca:
io son già fioco, la chitarra è stanca;
ma voi non ascoltate, e il canto muore.

O Madonna, la luna impallidisce
ne 'l ciel come una lampa d'alabastro;
e s'accendono già le prime strisce
di arancio e d'oro sovra il ciel verdastro.

E voi non vi destate? O su da 'l letto
a l'ultimo incantesimo lunar,
sorgete alfine ignuda a mezzo il petto
candida e palpitante, ad ascoltar?

Aprite, aprite; de le chiome l'onda
porgetemi: d'amor li incanti io so;
lieve per la vivente scala bionda
a 'l ciel de' vostri baci, io salirò.

Text Authorship:

  • by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863 - 1938) [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 Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Notte bianca" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 196

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