The impatient lover | What is my darling doing?

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Uri Liebrecht

L'amante impaziente

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE SPA

Che fa, che fa il mio bene?
Perchè, perché non viene?
Vedermi vuole languir 
Così, così, così!
Oh come è lento nel corso il sole!
Ogni momento mi sembra un dì,
Che fa, che fa il mio bene?
Perchè, perché non viene?
Vedermi vuole languir 
Così, così, così!

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "L'amante impaziente", op. 82 (Vier Arietten und ein Duett) no. 3 (1810), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "L'amante impaziente", op. 82 (Vier Arietten und ein Duett) no. 4 (1810), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.

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

ENG English (Uri Liebrecht) , "The impatient lover", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Giuletta Lappo) , "L'Amant impatient", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "El amante impaciente", copyright © 2010, (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: 10
Word count: 48

The impatient lover

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

What is my darling doing?
Perhaps she will not come?
She likes to see me pine away
Like this ........
How slowly the sun runs its course,
Every second's like a day.
What is my darling doing?
Perhaps she will not come ....... ?
She likes to see me pine away
Like this ........

Text Authorship:

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-28
Line count: 10
Word count: 53