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Torna, vezzosa Fillide, al caro tuo pastore; lungi da tue pupille pace non trova il cor. Al caro tuo soggiorno io sempre volgo il piè e grido notte e giorno: Fillide mia dov'è? Domando a quella sponda: Fillide mia che fa? E par che mi risponda: Piange lontan da te. Domando a quello rio: Fillide mia dov'è? Con rauco mormorio dice: Piangendo sta. Il caro tuo sembiante, fonte d'ogni piacere, il miro ad ogni istante impresso nel pensier. Ma rimirando allora ch'egli non è con me, grido piangendo ognora: Fillide mia dov'e? Son fatte le mie pene un tempestoso mare; non trovo, amato bene, chi le potrà calmar. Che fa la morte, oh Dio, che non mi chiama a sé? Gridar più non poss'io: Fillide mia dov'è?
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835), "Torna, vezzosa Fillide" [text verified 1 time]
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- ENG English (Christopher Swanson) , title 1: "Return, charming Fillide", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 32
Word count: 127
Return, charming Fillide, to your dear shepherd; Far from your eyes My heart finds no peace. To your dear abode I always turn my steps And I cry night and day: Where is my Fillide? I ask the shore: What is my Fillide doing? And it seems to answer: Weeping far from you! I ask to river: Where is my Fillide? With a hoarse murmur It says: she is weeping. Your dear face, Fountain of every desire, I see it at every moment Impressed in my mind. But seeing more clearly that it is not with me, I cry, weeping always: Where is my Fillide? I have made in my pain A tempestuous sea; I do not find one, beloved, Who can relieve it. What is Death doing, God, That it does not call me? I cannot cry out any more: Where is my Fillide?
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2004 by Christopher Swanson, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2004-11-16
Line count: 32
Word count: 145