|
The Self Banished
The Self Banished è una poesia scritta da Edmund Waller nel 1645 circa. Fu messa in musica dal compositore barocco John Blow nel 1700.[1] È anche una delle prime canzoni scritte dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar. Composta nel 1875, appositamente per "soprano o tenore", non è stata pubblicata fino a poco tempo fa.
Versi
Blow mise in musica le strofe 1 e 2. Elgar aggiunse una strofa che inizia con la sua scrittura di "Absence".
«THE SELF-BANISHED
- It is not that I love you less
- Than when before your feet I lay:
- But to prevent the sad increase
- Of hopeless love, I keep away.
- In vain! (alas!) for ev'ry thing
- Which I have known belong to you,[2]
- Your form does to my fancy bring,
- And makes my old wounds bleed anew.
- Who in the Spring from the new Sun
- Already has a fever got,
- Too late begins those shafts to shun,
- Which Phoebus through his veins has shot.
- Too late he would the pain assuage,
- And to shadows thick he doth retire;
- About with him he bears the rage,[3]
- And in his tainted blood the fire.
- Abscence is vain for ev'ry thing
- That I have known belong to you,
- Your form does to my fancy bring,
- And makes my old wounds bleed anew.]*[4]
- But vow'd I have, and never must
- Your banish'd servant trouble you;
- For if I break, you may distrust[5]
- The vow I made to love you, too.»
Incisioni
Note
- ^ John Blow Amphion Angelicus, 1700, p.91
- ^ Note belong not belongs. It is the subjunctive of the verb.
- ^ Here Elgar substitutes "pain" for Waller's "rage"
- ^ This stanza was added by Elgar, with curious (mock-baroque?) spelling of "Absence"
- ^ Here Elgar puts "mistrust" for Waller's "distrust"
Collegamenti esterni
|
|
.jpg)
