Any delays to a lover's repose (Rossi, set by (Georg Friedrich Händel)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Giacomo Rossi (flourished 1710-1729)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Ogni indugio d'un amante

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Ogni indugio d'un amante
È una pena acerba e ria.

Il timore sempre lo sferza,
La speranza seco scherza,
Or lo prova l'alma mia.

Authorship

by Giacomo Rossi (flourished 1710-1729) [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Ogni indugio d'un amante", HWV 7 (1711), first performed 1711, from opera Rinaldo, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Any delays to a lover's repose", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-22
Line count: 5
Word count: 24

Any delays to a lover's repose

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Any delays to a lover's repose
are a bitter and grievous trial to bear.

Fear will whip him on,
hope always plays jokes with him,
and now that "him" is me.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giacomo Rossi (flourished 1710-1729)

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-12
Line count: 5
Word count: 31