Three Poems by Eminescu, for voice (soprano) and piano (2015) Dario Argentesi

Описание: Lyrics by Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) translated into English by Corneliu M. Popescu (1958-1977). Music written in 2015, revised in 2026.

Performed by MuseScore & Cantai.

Score available at https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Poems_by_Emi...)

Composer's website: https://dazzascores.wordpress.com

I. OF ALL THE SHIPS
Of all the ships the ocean rolls
How many find untimely graves
Piled high by you upon the shoals,
O waves and winds, o winds and waves? How many a bird that leaves its bower And o'er the sky in autumn draves
You beat and blindly overpower,
O winds and waves, o waves and winds? Should easy luck or high endeavour
Be our aim it little saves,
For you pursue our footsteps ever,
O waves and winds, o winds and waves. Still, it is past our comprehending
What design your song enslaves, Rolling on until time's ending,
O winds and waves, o waves and winds.

II. ALTHOUGH THE WORLD
Although the world would call me free
Each year the more her slave am I,
For in her very way to be
There's I don't know what, I don't know why. Already from the day we met
Was my freedom mortal shot ?
She's but a girl as they, and yet
There's something more, I don't know what. No matter what we speak, or do,
The moments in sweet silence fly,
For somehow there is music too
When she is mute, I don't know why.
So likely to my dying day
To follow her will be my lot,
For in her sweet and candid way
There's I don't know why, I don't know what.

III. DROWSY BIRDS
Drowsy birds at even gliding,
Round about their nests alight,
In among the branches hiding . . . Dear, good night! Silence through the forest creeping,
Lullaby the river sighs;
In the garden flowers sleeping. . . Shut your eyes! Glides the swan among the rushes
To its rest where moonlight gleams,
And the angels' whisper hushes. . . Peaceful dreams! O'er the sky stars without number,
On the earth a silver light;
All is harmony and slumber . . . Dear, good night!