My love is strengthen'd, though more...

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Our love was new and then but in the spring
When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
  Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,
  Because I would not dull you with my song.

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 102

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

by Edward James Harper (1941-) , no title, 1964 [part song: SSAATTBB], from Three Shakespeare Sonnets, no. 2.

by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904-1987) , "Ljublju - no rezhe govorju ob `etom", op. 52 no. 3 (1953-5), from Desjat' sonetov Shekspira, no. 3.

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)

Date added to the website: 2003-11-02.

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Ljublju ‑ no rezhe govorju ob `etom

Ljublju - no rezhe govorju ob `etom,
Ljublju nezhnej - no ne dlja mnogikh glaz
Torgujet chuvstvom tot, kto pered svetom
Vsju dushu vystavljajet napokaz. 
Tebja vstrechal ja pesnej, kak privetom,
Kogda ljubov' nova byla dlja nas. 
Tak solovej gremit v polnochnyj chas
Vesnoj, no flejtu zabyvajet letom. 
Noch' ne lishitsja prelesti svojej,
Kogda jego umolknut izlijan'ja. 
No muzyka, zvucha so vsekh vetvej,
Obychnoj stav, terjajet obajan'e. 
I ja umolk podobno solov'ju:
Svojo propel i bol'she ne poju.

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by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887-1964) , "Sonet CII"

a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 102 ITA

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

by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904-1987) , "Ljublju - no rezhe govorju ob `etom", op. 52 no. 3 (1953-5), from Desjat' sonetov Shekspira, no. 3.

Date added to the website: 2003-11-02.