Sonnet XIV | Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck

Not from the stars do I my judgement...

Language: English

Our translations: ITA

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert;
  Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
  Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.

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Text Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 14 [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 Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XIV", 1864 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Harri Vuori (b. 1957), "Sonnet 14", 1999, published 1999 [ tenor and viola da gamba ], from From Day to Dream / Päivästä uneen päin, neljä W. Shakespearen tummaa sonettia, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by David Winkler , "Sonnet XIV", 1981 [ soprano and piano ], from Five songs [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. 14, first published 1857
FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot) , no title, appears in Œuvres Complètes de Shakspeare Volume VIII, in Sonnets, no. 14, first published 1863

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-10-10
Line count: 14
Word count: 112