by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take...
Language: English
Available translation(s): ITA
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; All mine was thine before thou hadst this more. Then if for my love thou my love receivest, I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest; But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest By wilful taste of what thyself refusest. I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief, Although thou steal thee all my poverty; And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury. Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.
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Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 40 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Sonnet XL - Take all my loves", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 2 (1963) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Sonnet XL", 2003 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XL", 1865 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Sonnet XL", op. 72 no. 1 (1999) [ vocal quintet: five solo voices a cappella (s-mez-a-t-bar) ], from Drei Shakespeare-Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 40, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Prenditi ogni mio amore, amore, sì, prenditi tutto", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 120