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Amo l' ora del giorno che muore Quando il sole già stanco declina, E nell'onde di queta marina Veggo il raggio supremo languir. In quell' ora mi torna nel core Un' età più felice di questa, In quell' ora dolcissima e mesta Volgo a te, cara donna, il sospir. L' occhio immoto ed immoto il pensiero, Io contemplo la striscia lucente Che mi vien dal sereno occidente La quïete solcando del mar. E desio di quell' aureo sentiero [Avviarmi]1 sull' orma infinita Quasi debba la [trista]2 mia vita Ad un porto di pace guidar.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Opere di Andrea Maffei. Liriche, Firenze (Florence), Felice le Monnier, 1864, page 321.
1 Verdi: "Ravviarmi"2 Verdi: "stanca"
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- by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), "Il tramonto", 1845 [voice and piano], from 6 Romanze, no. 1, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist CAT FRE ; composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Sol ponent", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le coucher du soleil", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Abend", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Estimo l'hora baixa del dia que mor quan el sol ja cansat declina i, en l'onada de la mar tranquil·la, veig el darrer raig llanguir. En aquell moment, em torna al cor un temps més feliç que aquest; en aquell moment, dolcíssim i trist, t'adreço, estimada dona, el sospir. Els ulls immòbils i immòbil el pensament, jo contemplo la llenca resplendent que m'arriba del serè, del serè ponent, el plàcid solcar, solcar del mar i desitjo que aquell sender daurat m'encamini per el rastre infinit com si la meva cansada vida, cap a un port de pau, m'hagués de conduir.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Andrea Maffei (1798 - 1885), no title
This text was added to the website: 2013-05-30
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