Tre Sonetti Di Petrarca, S. 158_ I. Pace Non Trovo

Tenor: Nicolai Gedda
Piano: Lars Roos
Composer: Franz Liszt
Lyrics: Francesco Petrarca

I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi
et celesti bellezze al mondo sole,
tal che di rimembrar mi giova et dole,
ché quant’io miro par sogni, ombre et fumi;

5et vidi lagrimar que’ duo bei lumi,
ch’àn fatto mille volte invidia al sole;
et udí’ sospirando dir parole
che farian gire i monti et stare i fiumi.

Amor, Senno, Valor, Pietate, et Doglia
10facean piangendo un piú dolce concento
d’ogni altro che nel mondo udir si soglia;

ed era il cielo a l’armonia sí intento
che non se vedea in ramo mover foglia,
tanta dolcezza avea pien l’aere e ’l vento.



On earth reveal'd the beauties of the skies,
Angelic features, it was mine to hail;
Features, which wake my mingled joy and wail,
While all besides like dreams or shadows flies.
And fill'd with tears I saw those two bright eyes,
Which oft have turn'd the sun with envy pale;
And from those lips I heard—oh! such a tale,
As might awake brute Nature's sympathies!
Wit, pity, excellence, and grief, and love
With blended plaint so sweet a concert made,
As ne'er was given to mortal ear to prove:
And heaven itself such mute attention paid,
That not a breath disturb'd the listening grove—
Even æther's wildest gales the tuneful charm obey'd.

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