LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,102)
  • Text Authors (19,442)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Carlo Guaita

È morta
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Morta e ieri ancor, qui vagheggiai,
il lampeggiar di due bei rai!
Oh! l'amor mio, dove fuggì?
morte spietata me lo rapì,
morta e ier la vagheggiai,
morta, morta! 
Più non ascolta nè i giuramenti,
nè il flebil suono de'miei lamenti, 
ella è morta.
Or vive un angiol di più nel ciel.
Ieri ancor col suo sospir
il paradiso sembrommi aprir:
fu la sua voce canto seren,
che mi calmava l'affanno in sen,
morta! e ieri ancora stendea la mano 
al poverello con volto umano, 
era una madre che lagrimosa 
il ciel pregava per la pietosa 
morta, morta!

Text Authorship:

  • by Carlo Guaita  [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), "È morta" [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "She is dead", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-04-09
Line count: 19
Word count: 98

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris