Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Shakespeare, set by L. Crabtree, M. Gideon, D. Austin) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine
With all triumphant splendor on my brow;
But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.
  Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
  Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

Authorship

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Sonnets

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

Dorothea Austin

Mirrors

Leslie Crabtree (1941-)

Miriam Gideon (1906-1996)

Sonnets from Shakespeare

Set in German, a translation of Hans Hübner ITA [text unavailable]

Hans-Georg Burghardt (1909-1993)

Sonette nach Shakespeare

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

ITA

Italian

Date added to the website: 2004-08-09.

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