Tempus est iocundum III. Cour dAmours by Carl Orff Lyrics

Latina

[Soli per Soprano e Baritono,
Coro e Ragazzi]

Tempus est iocundum,
o virgines,
modo congaudete
vos iuvenes!

Oh, oh, oh!
totus floreo!
iam amore virginali totus ardeo!
novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!

Mea me confortat
promissio,
mea me deportat
negatio.

Oh, oh, oh!
totus floreo!
iam amore virginali totus ardeo!
novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!
Tempore brumali
vir patiens,
animo vernali
lasciviens.

Oh, oh, oh!
totus floreo!
iam amore virginali totus ardeo!
novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!

Mea mecum ludit
virginitas,
mea me detrudit
simplicitas.

Oh, oh, oh!
totus floreo!
iam amore virginali totus ardeo!
novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!

Veni, domicella,
cum gaudio,
veni, veni, pulchra,
iam pereo.

Oh, oh, oh!
totus floreo!
iam amore virginali totus ardeo!
novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!
 

English

[Soprano and Baritone soloists,
chorus and children's chorus]

This is the joyful time,
O maidens,
rejoice with them,
young men!

Oh, oh, oh!
I am bursting out all over!
I am burning all over with first love!
New, new love is what I am dying of!

I am heartened
by my promise,
I am downcast
by my refusal.

Oh, oh, oh! etc.

In the winter
man is patient,
the breath of spring
makes him lust.
Oh, oh, oh! etc.

My virginity
makes me frisky,
my simplicity
holds me back.

Oh, oh, oh! etc.

Come, my mistress,
with joy,
come, come, my pretty,
I am dying!

Oh, oh, oh! etc.