by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845)

Come away, come away, death
Language: English 
Our translations:  DUT GER ITA NOR



        

        
V. Fine sets stanza 1


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 1 Fortner: "Death, come away, come away"

2 Dring: "Come prepare it"

3 Leguerney: "thrown"; Wilkinson: "strewn"

4 Leguerney: "strown"

5 Korngold: "A thousand sighs to save,"; omitted by Argento.

6 Korngold: "True"

7 Amram: "did share it." [mistake?] 



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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Jan Jonk)  , "Kom toch gauw, kom toch gauw, dood", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)   
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable]  (David Paley)  , "Komm herbei, komm herbei, Tod", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari)  , "Vieni, o morte", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland)  , "Kom hit, kom nå hit, død", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Komierowski)  , no title 


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16

Word count: 99



        
        
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 

        
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA SPA

        
        
        
        
  Komm herbey, komm herbey, Tod!
Und begrab'  Cypressen den Leib.
  Laß mich frey, laß mich frey, Noth!
Mich erschlägt ein holdseliges Weib.
Mit Rosmarin mein Leichenhemd, 
  O bestellt es! 
Ob Lieb' ans Herz mir tödtlich kömmt, 
  Treu' hält es.

  Keine Blum', keine Blum' süß,
Sey gestreut auf den schwärzlichen Sarg.
  Keine Seel', keine Seel', grüß'
Mein Gebein, wo die Erd' es verbarg.
  Um Ach und Weh zu wenden ab,
    bergt alleine
mich, wo kein Treuer komm' ans Grab
    Und weine.



        

        






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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila)  , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable]  (Lau Kanen)  , "Kom maar op, kom maar op, dood", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs)  , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • FRE French (Français) (Jacques Jobard)  , "Chant de Shakespeare", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Gianni Franceschi)  , "Canzone", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfonso Sebastián)  , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 


Research team  for this page: Matthias Gräff-Schestag , Sharon Krebs  [Guest Editor] 
This text was added to the website: 2003-12-07 
Line count: 16

Word count: 81