Ego dormio

General information

Source of text is Song of Solomon 5:2, 5:6, 8:6 & 4:3.

Settings by composers

• Anonymous SAA (all vv., with some minor reordering)
• Leone Leoni SSAATTB (v. 5:2, including the non-Vulgate text)
• Heinrich Schütz SATB (v.5:2 omitting vox dilecti..)

Original text and translations

Latin text 5:2  Ego dormio, et cor meum vigilat: vox dilecti mei pulsantis, Aperi mihi, soror mea, [sponsa,] amica mea, columba mea, [formosa mea, speciosa mea,] immaculata mea. Quia caput meum plenum est rore, et cincinni mei guttis noctium. 5:6  Aperui dilecto meo pessulum ostii meiat ille totus desiderabilis clamans ad me 8:6  Pone me sicut signaculum super cor tuum quia fortis est ut mors dilectio tua Tota pulchra es, amica mea 4:3  labia tua sicut vitta coccinea eloquium tuum dulce sicut fragmen mali punici. Bracketed words not in the Vulgate. German translation Übersetzung: Peter Rottländer {Verse|5:2}} Ich schlafe, aber mein Herz liegt wach. Öffne mir, meine Schwester, meine Taube, meine Makellose, denn mein Haupt ist voll Tau und meine Locken voller Tropfen der Nacht.

English translation {Verse|5:2}} I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights. Douai-Rheims version