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Ballata alla luna (da `Re Enzo')

Language: Italian

Quest'è l'ora in cui il poeta
Legge in te, benigna e pia,
La leggenda or triste or lieta
De l'Eterna Poesia.
Quest'è l'ora in cui il pilota
Volge l'occhio al tuo bel viso
Come ad una faccia nota
E t'accenna... ed ha un sorriso,
Poiché vede in su le nere
Onde cupe a cento a cento
Melanconiche cadere
Le tue lagrime d'argento!...
A me pur sorridi, o Luna,
E nel cor mi allieterà
La tua fulgida beltà,
Fra la notte triste e bruna!...


Authorship

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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