I do not have respite | I do not have respite

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by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)

Translation © by Gretchen Armacost

Tregua non ho

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Tregua non ho
nè sperar so più pace dacchè,
rubando a due occhi di brace
una favilla di loro pupilla,
bruciai di tal foco che,
a stinguerlo un poco,
non potria bastare anch'esso il mare.
Potessi almeno a lei narrare
quelle ond'io peno doglianze amare!
Aurette, voi soltanto potreste dirle, intanto,
ch'io languo, ch'io brucio,
ch'io moro d'amor.

Per miglior sorte compagno vorria
un serpe, un rospo o una mula restia,
anzi che questo mio amore funesto
che sì m'attanaglia, mi morde e travaglia
ed è il mio tormento d'ogni momento.

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), "Tregua non ho", published <<1918, from 36 Arie di Stile Antico, no. 32. [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Gretchen Armacost) , title 1: "I do not have respite", 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: 17
Word count: 91

I do not have respite

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

 I do not have respite
 Nor do I know any longer how to hope for peace
 Since, stealing embers from two eyes,
 A spark from their pupils,
 I burned with such a fire
 That, to put it out a little
 Not even the sea would suffice. 
 If I could at least tell her
 Those bitter complaints with which I suffer! 
 Little breezes, you alone could say to her, in the meantime,
 That I languish, that I burn,
 That I die of love. 
 
 For a better fate I would like as companion
 A serpent, a toad, or a stubborn mule,
 Rather than this, my baleful love
 Which so tortures me, bites and afflicts me,
 And is my torment at every moment.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 121