Glimmande nymf

Glimmande Nymf! blixtrande öga! (Gleaming Nymph, flashing eye!), is a song by the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 72. It is subtitled "Lemnad vid Cajsa Lisas Säng, sent om en afton" (Left by Cajsa Lisa's Bed, late one afternoon), and set to a melody by Egidio Duni. A night-piece, it depicts a Rococo muse in the Ulla Winblad mould, asleep in her bed in Stockholm, complete with allusions to both classical and Nordic mythology.

"Glimmande Nymf"
Art song
First page of sheet music for the 1810 edition
EnglishGleaming Nymph
Written1771, revised 1790
Textpoem by Carl Michael Bellman
LanguageSwedish
Melodyfrom Le peintre amoureux de son modèle
Composed1757
Published1790 in Fredman's Epistles
Scoringvoice and cittern

Bellman's biographer, Paul Britten Austin, calls the song exquisitely delicate. It is innocently worded but clearly erotic; the initial version culminated in an account of orgasm. The mood is conveyed with a description of a rainbow — after sunset, abandoning realism for poetic effect. The melody has been called "languorous and intense".

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