by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
'Tis Saint Valentine's Day See base text
Language: English
Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning time,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
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These words are sung by Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, but they are probably not by Shakespeare.
Composition:
- Set to music by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "'Tis Saint Valentine's Day", 1917, lines 1-4 [ voice and piano ], arrangement of a melody by Thomas d'Urfey in «Wit and Mirth», 1707
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in Hamlet
- sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
See other settings of this text.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
- GER German (Deutsch) (Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger) , no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-26
Line count: 17
Word count: 111