Dilectus meus mihi (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
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General Information
Title: Dilectus meus mihi
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Palestrina Werke, vol. 4
Description: Number 17 of 'Canticum Canticorum / Song of Songs / Songs of Solomon' - Chapter 2 - Verses 16 through 17 and Chapter 3 Verse 1.
External websites:
- Texts of all the "Songs of Solomon" in English.
- Wikipedia's article on the "Songs of Solomon".
- All of Palestrina's "Canticum Canticorum" can be found here.
Original text and translations
Song of Solomon 2:16–3:1
Latin text
- Dilectus meus mihi, et ego illi,
- qui pascitur inter lilia
- donec adspiret dies et inclinentur umbrae.
- Revertere, similis esto dilecte mi capreae,
- hinnuloque cervorum super montes Bether.
- In lectulo meo per noctes quaesivi,
- quem diligit anima mea;
- quaesivi illum et non inveni.
English translation
- My beloved to me, and I to him
- who feedeth among the lilies,
- Till the day break, and the shadows retire.
- Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe,
- or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
- In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth:
- I sought him, and found him not.
