Qual occhi al mondo puo

English Libretto or Translation:

CAVARADOSSI
What eyes in the world can compare
with your black and glowing eyes?
It is in them that my whole being fastens,
Eyes soft with love and rich with anger
Where in the whole world are eyes
To compare with your black eyes?

TOSCA
won over, resting her head on his shoulder
Oh, how well you know the art
Of capturing women's hearts!
still persisting in her idea
But let her eyes be black ones!

CAVARADOSSI
My jealous Tosca!

TOSCA
Yes, I feel it, I torment you
Unceasingly.

CAVARADOSSI
My jealous Tosca!

TOSCA
I know you would forgive me
If you knew my grief.

CAVARADOSSI
You are my idol Tosca,
All things in you delight me;
Your storming anger
And your pulsing love!

TOSCA
Say again
Those consoling words …
Say them again!

CAVARADOSSI
My life, my troubled one, beloved.
I shall always say, "I love you Floria"
Set your uneasy heart at rest,
I shall always say "I love you."

TOSCA
disengaging, lest she be won completely
Good heavens! What a sin!
You have undone my hair.

CAVARADOSSI
Now you must leave me!

TOSCA
You stay at your work until this evening.
And will you promise that, blond locks
Or black, by chance or otherwise,
No woman shall come here to pray?

CAVARADOSSI
I swear it beloved. Go now!

TOSCA
How you do hurry me along!

CAVARADOSSI
mildly reproving, as he sees her jealousy return
Come, again?

TOSCA
falling into his arms, with upturned cheek
No, forgive me!

CAVARADOSSI
smiling
Before the Madonna?

TOSCA
She is so good!
But let her eyes be black ones!