by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964)

My love is strengthen'd, though more...
Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Our love was new and then but in the spring
When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
  Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,
  Because I would not dull you with my song.

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  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 102, first published 1857
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "E' più forte il mio amore, anche se più debole appare", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

Люблю ‑ но реже говорю об этом
 (Sung text for setting by D. Kabalevsky)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the English 
Люблю - но реже говорю об этом,
Люблю нежней - но не для многих глаз
Торгует чувством тот, кто перед светом
Всю душу выставляет напоказ. 
Тебя встречал я песней, как приветом,
Когда любовь нова была для нас. 
Так соловей гремит в полночный час
Весной, но флейту забывает летом. 
Ночь не лишится прелести своей,
Когда его умолкнут излиянья. 
Но музыка, звуча со всех ветвей,
Обычной став, теряет обаянье. 
И я умолк подобно соловью:
Своё пропел и больше не пою.

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 76