To the beloved | Give me, Love, kisses without number

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by Cristobal de Castillejo (d. c1550)

Translation © by Alice Rogers-Mendoza

Al Amor

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG ITA

Dame, Amor, besos sin cuento
Asido de mis cabellos
Y mil y ciento tras ellos
Y tras ellos mil y ciento
Y después...
De muchos millares, tres!
Y porque nadie lo sienta
Desbaratemos la cuenta
Y... contemos al revés.

Text Authorship:

by Cristobal de Castillejo (d. c1550) [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 Fernando J. Obradors (1897 - 1945), "Al Amor" [ voice and piano ], from Canciones clásicas españolas, vol 1, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Alice Rogers-Mendoza) , "To the beloved", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "All'Amore", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 39

To the beloved

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

Give me, Love, kisses without number,
as the number of hairs on my head,
and give me a thousand and a hundred after that,
and a hundred and a thousand after that...
and after those...
many thousands... give me three more!
And so that no one feels bad...
Let us tear up the tally
and begin counting backwards!

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2003 by Alice Rogers-Mendoza, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Cristobal de Castillejo (d. c1550)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 58