by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is...
Language: English
Available translation(s): ITA
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And each doth good turns now unto the other: When that mine eye is famish'd for a look, Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother, With my love's picture then my eye doth feast And to the painted banquet bids my heart; Another time mine eye is my heart's guest And in his thoughts of love doth share a part: So, either by thy picture or my love, Thyself away art resent still with me; For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move, And I am still with them and they with thee; Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.
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Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 47 [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 XLVII - Betwixt mine eye", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 4 (1963) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XLVII", 1865 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lex Zwaap (1919 - 1988), as Lex van Delden, "Betwixt mine eye and heart", op. 72 (Drie sonnetten van Shakespeare) no. 2 (1961) [ contralto and piano ] [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. 47, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
Line count: 14
Word count: 122