by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Translation by John Edward Taylor (1791 - 1844)

Com'arò dunche ardire
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT FRE LIT
Com'arò dunche ardire
Senza vo' ma', mio ben, tenermi 'n vita,
S'io non posso al partir chiedervi aita?
Que' singulti, e que' pianti, e que' sospiri
Che 'l miser core voi accompagnorno,
Madonna, duramente dimostrorno
La mia propinqua morte e' miei martiri.
Ma se ver è che per assenzia mai
Mia fedel servitù vadia in oblio,
Il cor lasso con voi, che non è mio.

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How shall I e'er have power
Language: English  after the Italian (Italiano) 
How shall I e'er have power,
Taken from you, to keep myself in life,
Unable if at parting to invoke
Your aid ? These plaints, these sorrowings, these sighs,
With which my grieving heart still follows you,
With cruel indication, lady, show
My near approaching death, my sufferings.
But lest by absence you forgetful prove
How I have served you with all faithfulness,
As a remembrance of my long-borne woes,
I leave to you my heart, which is not mine.

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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-03
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Word count: 79