How like a winter hath my absence been
Language:
English
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
And yet this time remov'd was summer's time,
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me
But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And thou away, the very birds are mute;
Or if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.
Input by Barbara Miller
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
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Set in
Polish,
a translation of
Macieja Słomczyński
ITA
[text unavailable]
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
 ITA
Italian
(Ferdinando Albeggiani)
Date added to the website: 2005-08-06.
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