Gerald Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring (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. Who is Silvia?

Language: English
Translation(s): GER SPA FRE FIN DUT

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Two Gentlemen of Verona

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SPA

FRE

FIN

DUT


Who is Silvia? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair and wise is she;
The [heavens]¹ such grace did lend her,
That she might admiréd be.

Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And being helped, inhabits there.

Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling;
To her let us garlands bring.

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¹ in some editions of Shakespeare, "heaven"

3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun

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

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline

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FIN

Finnish

ITA

Italian

SPA

Spanish


Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
[As chimney-sweepers,]¹ come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o' the great;
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
[All]² lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renownéd be thy grave!

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¹ Pierson: "Follow thee, and"
² ommitted by Pierson.

Input by Ted Perry

4. 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"

5. It was a lover and his lass

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

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It

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FRE

French

FIN

Finnish


It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino
That o'er the green [corn-field]¹ did pass.
  In [the]² spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

[Between the acres of the rye,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
These pretty country [folks]³ would lie,
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring. ]⁴

[This carol they began that hour,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that [a life]⁵ was but a flower
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.]⁴

[And therefore take the present time]⁶
  [With]⁷ a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
For love is crownéd with the prime
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.

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¹ Morley: "cornfields"
² omitted by Barton, Bush, and Morley, passim.
³ Delius, Dring: "folk"
⁴ In Dring and Parry, only the first and third lines are set.
⁵ sometimes "life"?
⁶ Barton, Morley : "Then, pretty lovers, take the time"
⁷ Bush: "And with"

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