Candura | As tuas mãos nas minhas mãos

by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

Candura

Language: Portuguese (Português) after the English

Our translations: FRE

As tuas mãos nas minhas mãos,
os meus olhos nos teus olhos;
assim começou o nosso amor.

Era por um luar de maio;
as flores se abriam em perfume.
Falava por mim o silêncio
e o ramalhete que fazias
ficava por acabar.

Como é puro este nosso amor.
Prendem-se-me os olhos
no teu véu cor de ouro.
Enternece-me como um elogio
o ramo de jasmins que tu me deste.

E nos buscamos e nos fugimos,
doces lutas simuladas,
risos... timidez...
Como é puro este nosso amor.

Text Authorship:

by Plácido Barbosa [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 16, first published 1913
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Based on:

a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Candura", 1908 [ voice and piano ], E. Bevilacqua & C. [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950) , no title, appears in Der Gärtner, no. 16 ; composed by Hermann Reiter.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , excerpt [an adaptation] ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.

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

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-07-18
Line count: 17
Word count: 86