Impromptu Translation Of An Air In The Clemenza Di Tito Of Metastasio

________________________________________________
Title:     Impromptu Translation Of An Air In The Clemenza Di Tito Of Metastasio
Author: Samuel Johnson [More Titles by Johnson]

IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION
OF AN AIR IN THE CLEMENZA DI TITO OF
METASTASIO,
BEGINNING "DEH SE PIACERMI VUOI."

Would you hope to gain my heart,
Bid your teasing doubts depart;
He, who blindly trusts, will find
Faith from ev'ry gen'rous mind:
He, who still expects deceit,
Only teaches how to cheat.

[The end]
Samuel Johnson's poem: Impromptu Translation Of An Air In The Clemenza Di Tito Of Metastasio

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN