by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873)
Your love and pity doth the impression...
Language: English
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:
You are so strongly in my purpose bred,
That all the world besides methinks are dead.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 112 [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 CXII", 1864-6 [ medium voice 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. 112, first published 1857
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-08-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 114
Votre amour et votre pitié couvrent la...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Votre amour et votre pitié couvrent la marque que le scandale vulgaire a imprimée sur mon front. Pourquoi m'inquiéterais-je que d'autres me traitent bien ou mal, si vous jetez l'ombre sur mon imperfection et si vous reconnaissez ma valeur ? Vous êtes pour moi tout le monde, et je dois m'efforcer de connaître de votre bouche ou mon blâme ou mon éloge. Comme nul autre n'existe pour moi et que je n'existe pour nul autre, vous seul pouvez modifier en bien ou en mal ma volonté d'acier. Je jette dans un si profond abîme le souci de l'opinion des autres, que je suis sourd, comme la couleuvre, à leurs critiques ou à leurs flatteries. Voyez comme je prends mon parti de leur abandon. Vous dominez si puissamment ma pensée qu'en dehors de vous il me semble que tout le monde est mort.
About the headline (FAQ)
Text Authorship:
- by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873), no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 112, first published 1857 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 112
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-08-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 141