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Sì dolce è il tormento → English translation
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Original lyrics
Sì dolce è il tormento
Sì dolce è il tormento che in seno mi sta
ch'io vivo contento per cruda beltà...
nel ciel di bellezza s'accreschi fierezza et manchi pietà
che sempre qual scoglio all'onda d'orgoglio mia fede sarà...
La speme fallace rivolgami il piè
diletto né pace non scendano a me
e l'empia ch'adoro mi nieghi ristoro di buona mercè
tra doglia infinita, tra speme tradita vivrà la mia fe'...
(Per foco e per gelo riposo non ho
nel porto del Cielo riposo haverò...
se colpo mortale con rigido strale il cor m'impiagò
cangiando mia sorte col dardo di morte il cor sanerò...)
Se fiamma d'amore già mai non sentì
quel rigido core ch'il cor mi rapì
se nega pietate la cruda beltate che l'alma invaghì
ben fia che dolente pentita e languente sospirami un dì...
Submitted by morpheus on 2015-03-12
Last edited by annabellanna on 2019-09-24
Translation
So sweet is the torment
So sweet is the torment that lies in my heart,
that I live happily from its cruel beauty...
in Heaven's beauty fierce pride may grow bold without pity
but always my faith will be a rock against that wave of pride
May false hope turn back from me
may neither delight nor peace descend upon me
and the cruel woman I adore deny me merciful relief;
amidst infinite pain, amidst broken hope, my faith shall survive...
(From fire and ice I will find no repose;
only at the gate of Heaven shall I find repose...
should the deadly strike of an arrow injure my heart,
my heart shall heal by changing my lot with that [same] arrow of death)
If that unyielding heart that has captured mine
has never felt the flames of love,
if the cruel beauty that enthralled my soul denies me pity,
may she well, pained, repenting, languishing, pass a sigh for me one day
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Submitted by robert.tucker.794 on 2015-03-13
Added in reply to request by morpheus
Author's comments:
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