Roger Quilter: Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set) (The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Language: English
Translation(s): FRE SWE GER GER GER GER GER NOR GER GER FIN ITA GER DUT GER GER DUT

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Twelfth Night

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NOR

FIN

ITA

GER

DUT


[Come away, come away, death]¹,
  And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
  I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
  [O prepare it!]²
My part of death, no one so true
  Did share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
  On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
  My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:
[A thousand, [thousand]³ sighs to save,]⁴
  Lay me, O where
[Sad]³ true lover never find my grave,
  [To weep there!]⁵

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¹ Fortner: "Death, come away, come away"
² Dring: "Come prepare it"
³ omitted by Korngold
⁴ omitted by Argento.
⁵ Amram: "did share it." [mistake?]

2. O mistress mine

Language: English
Translation(s): GER GER FIN ITA FRE GER GER

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Twelfth Night

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FIN

ITA

FRE

GER


O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming 
That can sing both high and low.

[Trip]¹ no further, pretty sweeting;
[Journeys]² end in lovers' meeting,
Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:

[In]³ delay there lies no plenty;
Then [come kiss]⁴ me, sweet and twenty;
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

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¹ Korngold: "O trip"
² Korngold: "For journeyes"
³ Korngold: "And in"
⁴ Korngold: "come and kiss"

3. Blow, blow thou winter wind

Language: English
Translation(s): ITA SWE GER FIN ITA FRE GER GER

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It

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ITA

FIN

ITA

FRE

GER


Blow, blow thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As [man's]¹ ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen
[Because]² thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
[ Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.]³

Freeze, freeze thou [bitter]⁴ sky,
Thou dost not bite so [nigh]⁵
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
[ Heigh ho! sing heigh ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh ho! the holly!
This life is most jolly.]³

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¹ Arne: "men's"
² Parry: "Although"
³ not set by Arne.
⁴ Fortner: "winter"
⁵ Korngold: "high"

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