[ti:Semele, HWV 58 - Act 2 - Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele! (塞墨勒, HWV 58)] [ar:Kathleen Battle/John Aler/English Chamber Orchestra/John Nelson] [al:Handel: Semele] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele! - Kathleen Battle/John Aler/English Chamber Orchestra/John Nelson [00:00.20]Lyrics by:William Congreve [00:00.30]Composed by:George Frideric Händel [00:03.29]Ah me [00:06.53]Why sighs my semele [00:09.42]What gentle sorrow [00:11.07]Swells thy soft bosom [00:14.24]Why tremble those fair eyes [00:16.62]With interrupted light [00:18.73]Where hov'ring for a vent [00:20.65]Amidst their humid fires [00:22.97]Some new-form'd wish appears [00:25.85]Speak and obtain [00:30.09]At my own happiness [00:31.94]I sigh and tremble [00:36.47]Still I am mortal [00:38.88]Still a woman [00:43.24]And ever when you leave me [00:45.64]Tho' compass'd round with deities [00:48.28]Of loves and graces [00:52.83]A fear invades me [00:55.86]And conscious of a nature [00:58.01]Far inferior [01:01.61]I seek for solitude [01:05.99]And shun society [01:14.04]Too well I read her meaning [01:16.23]But must not understand her [01:18.65]Aiming at immortality [01:20.59]With dangerous ambition