Songs for Ariel

Come unto these yellow sands,
[Then]1 take hands:
Curtsied when you have and kissed,
The wild waves [whist]2:
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the [burthen]3 bear.

Hark, hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch dogs bark;
Bow-wow.
Hark, hark!
I hear the strain of strutting Chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle dow.

Authorship:

• by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, scene 2 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
• FRE French (Français) (Guy de Pourtalès)
• FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
• FRE French (Français) (Maurice Bouchor)
• SWE Swedish (Svenska) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)

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¹ Bacon, Beach, Quilter: "And then"
² Bacon: "shist"
³ Bacon: "burden"

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Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
[Ding-dong.]1
Hark! now I hear them, - ding-dong bell.

Authorship:

• by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Vijf vadem diep", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy de Pourtalès)
• FRE French (Français) (Maurice Bouchor)
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (David Paley) , "Voll Faden fünf", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Tuo padre giace a una profondità di cinque tese", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869
• NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Arild Bakke) , "På fem favner", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SWE Swedish (Svenska) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)

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¹ omitted by Ives.

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  Where the bee sucks there [suck]1 I:
  In a cow-slip's [bell]2 I lie;
  There I couch when owls do cry.
  On a bat's back [I do]3 fly
  After [summer]4 merrily,
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Authorship:

• by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
• FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title

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¹ Arne: "lurk"
² Arne: "bed"
³ Arne: "do I"
⁴ Arne: "sunset"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]