Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Poet: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Duet with Amanda Booth at our senior vocal recital at Northern Arizona University (April 2019), accompanied by Natalie Krafft.
Translation: Disappointed Hopes
Disappointed hopes, eternal faith,
Flame and powerful arrows in a sensitive heart,
Fierce passion nourished with nothing but sighs,
And hiding its pain when it sees others.
Following the wandering and fugitive footprints
Of the feet that are deliberately directed away.
By scattering the seed, losing both fruit and flower,
And languishing after the hoped-for reward.
Letting a single glance rule one's thoughts,
And by a chaste act of will, submerging desire
And wasting all one's inner light in weeping-
Cruel lady, these are what I send to you by the armful:
Harsh and bitter torments, cruel lady;
These will be your trophies and my funeral pyre.
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