Veni, veni, me sequere
fida Abra amata, sponso orbata.
Turtur gemo et spiro in te.

Dirae sortis tu socia confida
debellata sorte ingrata,
sociam laetae habebis me.

Note for line 3: Vivaldi sets et twice, and twice replaces it with ac. Both words mean "and."

Text Authorship:

• by Giacomo Cassetti (1682 - 1757) [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 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Veni, veni", RV. 644 (1716), first performed 1716, from oratorio Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Come, come", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Sergio Leone

This text was added to the website: 2004-08-19
Line count: 6
Word count: 27