Any delays to a lover's repose | Any delays to a lover's repose

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by Giacomo Rossi (flourished 1710-1729)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Ogni indugio d'un amante

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: 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.

Text 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]

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

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

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

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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Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2019 by Andrew Schneider, (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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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giacomo Rossi (flourished 1710-1729)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-12
Line count: 5
Word count: 31