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

Why is my verse so barren of new pride
Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth and where they did proceed?
O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
  For as the sun is daily new and old,
  So is my love still telling what is told.

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  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 76, first published 1857
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Perché il mio verso è spoglio di ogni nuovo ornamento", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 114

Увы, мой стих не блещет новизной
 (Sung text for setting by D. Kabalevsky)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the English 
Увы, мой стих не блещет новизной,
Разнообразьем перемен нежданных. 
Не поискать ли мне тропы иной,
Приемов новых, сочетаний странных? 
Я повторяю прежнее опять,
В одежде старой появляюсь снова,
И кажется, по имени назвать
Меня в стиhах любое может слово. 
Все это оттого, что вновь и вновь
Решаю я одну свою задачу:
Я о тебе пишу, моя любовь,
И то же сердце, те же силы трачу. 
Все то же солнце ходит надо мной,
Но и оно не блещет новизной.

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
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Word count: 78