Black Eye, the incendiary | Black Eye, the incendiary

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Brian Charles Witkowski

Occhio nero incendiator

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Occhio nero incendiator,
Io non so se un ben sei tu.
L'occhio azzurro è dolce più,
Pien d'un tenero languor.
Guerra al cor l'occhio nero mi fa,
Pace e calma l'azzurro mi dà.
L'occhio nero é quel signor,
Molto esige e poco dà.
È terribil nello sdegno,
Passaggier nella pietà.
L'occhio azzurro é ascoso ardor,
Poco ostenta e molto fa,
E compensa un lungo amor
Con segreta fedeltà.
Ma l'more e la beltà
Non dipende del color.
La mia Dea bell'occhio avrà
Se risponde l'occhio al cor.
Purché freddo o fallace non è,
Nero o azzurro è un bell'occhio per me.

Text 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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Occhio nero incendiator" [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Brian Charles Witkowski) , "Black Eye, the incendiary", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 101

Black Eye, the incendiary

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Black Eye, the incendiary,
I do not know if you are very good.
The blue eye is sweeter,
full of a tender lingering.
The black eye causes war to my heart;
The blue eyes give me peace and calmness.
The black eye is that person:
He demands a lot and he gives very little;
he is of terrible disdain,
walking in his mercy.
The blue eye is concealed in love;
It shows very little does a lot,
and it compensates a long love
with secret fidelity.
But the love and the beauty
Does not depend on the color.
My beautiful goddess will have me
if her eye answers to my heart.
Provided that it is not cold or false,
black or blue is a beautiful eye for me.

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2004-11-19
Line count: 20
Word count: 128