Tired with all these, for restful death...

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As, to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappilly forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
[And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted]1
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled,
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
  [Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
  Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.]2

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¹ omitted by Eisler.
² instead of the last two lines Eisler repeats the first.

Authorship

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 66

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 LXVI - "Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry"", 2002 [high voice or medium voice and piano], from Five Sonnets, no. 5.
by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) , "Shakespeares Sonnet Nr. 66", 1942, from Sonette Lieder, no. 4.
by Richard Simpson (1820-1876) , "Sonnet LXVI", 1864-5. [medium voice and piano]
by Harri Vuori (1957-) , "Sonnet 66", 1999, published 1999 [tenor and viola da gamba], from From Day to Dream / Päivästä uneen päin, neljä W. Shakespearen tummaa sonettia, no. 4.

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , "Sonet LXVI", op. 62 no. 5.
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , "Sonet LXVI", op. 140 no. 5.

by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936) , "Sonet LXVI", 1916.

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sonetto LXVI", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, from Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 66, published 1857

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Sonet LXVI

Izmuchas' vsem, ja umeret' khochu.
Toska smotret', kak majetsja bednjak
I kak, shutja, zhivjotsja bogachu,
I doverjat', i popadat' vprosak;
I nabljudat', kak naglost' lezet v svet,
I chest' devich'ja katitsja ko dnu.
I znat', chto khodu sovershenstvam net,
I videt' moshch' u nemoshchi v plenu,
I vspominat', chto mysli zamknut rot,
I razum snosit gluposti khulu,
I prjamodush'je prostotoj slyvjot,
I dobrota prisluzhivajet zlu.
Izmuchas' vsem, ne stal by zhit' i dnja,
Da drugu budet trudno bez menja.

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Note on Transliteration

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) , title unknown

a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from Sonnets, no. 66 ITA FRE

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

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , "Sonet LXVI", op. 62 no. 5.
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , "Sonet LXVI", op. 140 no. 5.

Text added to the website: 2003-11-19.