From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, Il Penseroso
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
d minor |
Meter |
3/4 |
Tempo |
Largo e piano per tutto → Adagio → Tempo I |
Length |
53 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Come rather, goddess sage and holy; |
Hail, divinest Melancholy, |
Whose saintly visage is too bright |
To hit the sense of human sight; |
Thee bright-hair’d Vesta long of yore, |
To solitary Saturn bore. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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