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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
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Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-8 of the original text.
Composition:
- Set to music by John Philip William Dankworth (1927 - 2010), "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day", 1964, lines 1-8 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 18
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (L. A. J. Burgersdijk)
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 18, first published 1857
- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot) , no title, appears in Œuvres Complètes de Shakspeare Volume VIII, in Sonnets, no. 18, first published 1863
- GER German (Deutsch) (Ludwig Reinhold Walesrode) , first published 1840
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dovrei paragonarti ad un giorno d'estate?", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky) , "Сонет 18", written 1914
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 118
Dovrei paragonarti ad un giorno d'estate?
Tu sei più incantevole e più mite:
A maggio un rude vento agita le gemme delicate
E il corso dell'estate ha troppo breve durata:
talvolta l'occhio del cielo troppo infuocato appare
e spesso invece il suo viso dorato si oscura;
ogni bellezza, col tempo, bellezza deve lasciare,
sciupata dal caso o dal mutevole corso di natura;
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Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-8 of the original text.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2008 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 18
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This text was added to the website: 2008-02-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 119