Or I shall live your epitaph to make
Language: English
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombèd in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,
And tongues to be your being shall rehearse
When all the breathers of this world are dead;
You still shall live -- such virtue hath my pen --
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Translation(s): FRE ITA RUS RUS
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Elena Olegovna Firsova (b. 1950), "Or I shall live your epitaph to make", op. 25 no. 1, published 1981, first performed 1986 [voice and organ], from Shakespeare's Sonnets, no. 1. [
text verified 1 time ]
- by Elena Olegovna Firsova (b. 1950), "Or I shall live your epitaph to make", op. 25a no. 1, published 1988 [voice and 4 saxophones], from Shakespeare's Sonnets, no. 1. [
text verified 1 time ]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet LXXXI", 1865, published [1878] [medium voice and piano], in Sonnets of Shakespeare, Selected from a complete Setting and Miscellaneous Songs, ed. Natalie Macfarren, London : Stanley Lucas, Weber [
text not verified ]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) , title 1: "Сонет LXXXI" ITA FRE by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky.
Other available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable): - RUS Russian (Русский) [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov) , title 1: "Сонет 81", 1981, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Sia che io resti vivo, il tuo epitaffio a dettare", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, from Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 81, published 1857
Text added to the website: 2003-11-04.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:58
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Word count: 117
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Sia che io resti vivo, il tuo epitaffio a dettare
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English
Sia che io resti vivo, il tuo epitaffio a dettare
Sia che tu invece sopravviva a me, in terra marcito,
da qui la morte il ricordo di te mai potrà sradicare,
pur se ogni ricordo di me sarà perduto.
Da qui riceverà vita immortale il tuo nome,
pure se io, venuto meno, debba morire al mondo:
conceda pure a me, la terra, solo una fossa comune,
tu in ogni sguardo umano sarai sepolto.
Sarà tuo monumento il mio verso gentile,
che occhi ancora non nati leggeranno,
e della tua esistenza narreranno lingue future
quando quelli che oggi respirano morti saranno.
Tu ancora vivrai -- la mia penna ha virtù tali --
Dove è più vivo il respiro, su labbra mortali.
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Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:59
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