No longer mourn for me when I am dead

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if (I say) you look upon this verse,
When I perchance compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love e'en with my life decay:
  Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
  And mock you with me after I am gone.

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , from Sonnets, no. 71

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by David Leo Diamond (1915-2005) , "No longer mourn for me when I am dead", from We Two, no. 7.
by Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) , "Sonnet LXXI: No longer mourn for me", 1949 [voice and piano, or voice and triumpet and string quartet (or string orchestra)], from Sonnets from Shakespeare, no. 4.
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "No longer mourn for me", 1874-1885, published 1886, from English Lyrics, set 2 no. 3

by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904-1987) , "Ty pogrusti, kogda umrjot po`et", op. 52 no. 8 (1953-5), from Desjat' sonetov Shekspira, no. 8.

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