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by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)

Dormendo stai
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Dormendo stai con le braccia inarcate,
quasi una rosa in desio de sbocciar;
e non ascolti le liete brigate
che van cantando le lor maggiolate..
Niuna parola ti dice questo sospirar
di mia viola?
Tempo è venuto di goder maggio!
Questo è il messaggio d'ogni liuto...
Ah! Odi il mio canto?
Che fai dunque lì ancor ascosa?
Fresca e odorosa, t'aspetta amor!

Se vieni meco per esta contrada,
diran che accanto sbocciato m'è un fior
e ch'io l'adduco così per istrada
a bere un sorso di fresca rugiada,
mentre i garzoni ci seguiranno
sospirando lor canzoni.
Tempo è venuto di goder maggio!
Questo è il messaggio d'ogni liuto...
Ah! Odi il mio canto?
Che fai dunque lì ancor ascosa?
Fresca e odorosa, t'aspetta amor!

Text Authorship:

  • by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941) [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 Stefano Donaudy (1879 - 1925), "Dormendo stai", published <<1918, from 36 Arie di Stile Antico, no. 34. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (Gretchen Armacost) , title 1: "You are sleeping", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Stuart Price

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 22
Word count: 124

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