by
Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)
Quella labbra non son rose
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Quelle labbra, mia signora,
non son rose maggioline;
(vi dicevo sempre allora).
Ci son rose senza spine?
Ma le ho baciate or or ed ho pensato:
non son di rose un paio,
ma sono un gran rosaio!
Sicchè persin ne ho insanguinato il cor. Ah!
No, non son di rose un paio, mia signora,
ma un rosaio!
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- ENG English (Gretchen Armacost) , title 1: "Those lips, my lady", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 57
Those lips, my lady
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
Those lips, my lady,
Are not roses of May;
(I used always to tell you then.)
Are there roses without thorns?
But I have kissed them just now and I have thought:
They are not a pair of roses,
But they are a great rose-tree!
So that I have even made bloody my heart on it.
No, they are not a pair of roses, my lady,
but a rose-tree!
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