Ah! pensate che rivolti!

Per questa fiamma indomita
alla virtù preposta,
per quegli amari spasimi,
per pianto che mi costa,
odi la mia preghiera.
Anna per me non pera;
innanzi al cielo, agli uomini,
rea non mi far di più.

Ah! pensate che rivolti
terra e cielo han gli occhi in voi;
che ogni core ha i falli suoi
per dovere altrui mercè.
La pietade Enrico ascolti,
se al rigore è spinto il Re.

by Felice Romani (1788-1865)

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

by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) , "Ah! pensate che rivolti!", published 1830 [mezzo-soprano and orchestra or piano], from the opera Anna Bolena, no. ?, Act II, Scene 2

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