Ad Hesperum (Klotzius, set by J. Novák) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Te, qui nequitias furtaque mollia
et rapta e labiis oscula flammeis
  attente specularis
    blanda et murmura virginum,

supremum Veneris te genus, Hespere,
oro, qua superas omnia sidera,
  o lucem nitidi oris
    nigris insere nubibus.

sic ne me Glycerae mellea basia
figentem et Glyceram mellea basia
  figentem mihi, matri
    morosae timeo indices.

at limen quoties illius obsidet
invisus Bavius, tum precor, Hespere,
  tum flamma rutilanti
    vincas omnia sidera.

Authorship

Christianus Adolphus Klotzius (1738-1771)

Carmina

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

Jan Novák (1921-1984)

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