Pitäisikö minun verrata sinua kesäpäivään?

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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day

(Sung text for setting by J. Dankworth)

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Language: English

Our translations: FIN ITA

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:

John Philip William Dankworth

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

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Pitäisikö minun verrata sinua...

(Sung text translation for setting by J. Dankworth)

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Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the English

Pitäisikö minun verrata sinua kesäpäivään?
Olethan sinä paljon suloisempi ja vakaampikin.
Raat tuulethan ravistavat maahan toukokuun nuput,
ja kesän aika on aivan liian lyhyt.
Joskus taivaan silmä hehkuu liian kuumana
ja joskus sen kultainen loisto himmenee.
Kaikki kaunis menettää aikanaan kauneutensa
sattuman tai luonnollisen kehityksen pakottamana.
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