When to the sessions of sweet silent...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
  But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
  All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Authorship

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 30

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

by Gary Bachlund , "Sonnet XXX - "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"", 2002 [high voice or medium voice and piano], from Five Sonnets, no. 4.
by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) , "Sonnet XXX - When to the sessions", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 4 (1944-7). [voice and piano]
by Leslie Crabtree (1941-) , "Sonnet XXX", 2001. [voice and piano]
by David Leo Diamond (1915-2005) , "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought", 1964, published 1967 [high voice and piano], from We Two, no. 9, New York : Southern
by Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) , no title, op. 31 no. 2 (1939), published 1942? [voice and piano], from 2 Shakespeare Sonnets, no. 2.
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought", 1873-82, published 1887 [voice and piano], from Four Sonnets of Shakespeare, no. 4.
by Richard Simpson (1820-1876) , "Sonnet XXX", 1864-5. [medium voice and piano]

by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904-1987) , "Kogda na sud bezmolvnykh, tajnykh dum", op. 52 no. 4 (1953-5), from Desjat' sonetov Shekspira, no. 4.

by Elliot Weisgarber (1919-2001) , "Sonnet I", 1971 [soprano, flute, oboe, harpsichord, violin, viola, and violoncello], from Of Love and Time (Ren-ai To Toki Ni Tsuite), no. 1.

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Quando dolci pensieri in silenzioso convegno", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, from Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 30, published 1857

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Когда на суд безмолвных, тайных дум

Когда на суд безмолвных, тайных дум
Я вызываю голоса былого, -
Утраты все приходят мне на ум
И старой болью я болею снова. 
Из глаз, не знавших слёз, я слёзы лью
О тех, кого во тьме таит могила,
Ищу любовь погибшую свою
И все, что в жизни мне казалось мило
Веду я счёт потерянному мной
И ужасаюсь вновь потере каждой,
И вновь плачу я дорогой ценой
За то, за что платил уже однажды! 
Но прошлое ыа нахожу в тебе
И все готов простить своей судьбе.

Транслитерация (Show transliteration)

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

a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 30 ITA FRE JPN

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) , "Kogda na sud bezmolvnykh, tajnykh dum", op. 52 no. 4 (1953-5), from Desjat' sonetov Shekspira, no. 4.

Text added to the website: 2003-11-11.