When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 30
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 30, first published 1857
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Quando dolci pensieri in silenzioso convegno", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Когда на суд безмолвных, тайных дум Я вызываю голоса былого, - Утраты все приходят мне на ум И старой болью я болею снова. Из глаз, не знавших слёз, я слёзы лью О тех, кого во тьме таит могила, Ищу любовь погибшую свою И все, что в жизни мне казалось мило Веду я счёт потерянному мной И ужасаюсь вновь потере каждой, И вновь плачу я дорогой ценой За то, за что платил уже однажды! Но прошлое ыа нахожу в тебе И все готов простить своей судьбе.
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- Set to music by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987), "Когда на суд безмолвных, тайных дум", op. 52 no. 4 (1953-5), from Десять сонетов Шекспира (Desjat' sonetov Shekspira) = Ten Sonnets of Shakespeare, no. 4
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- by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964), no title, appears in Шекспир Уильям - сонеты (Shekspir Uil'jam - sonety) = Sonnets of William Shakespeare, no. 30
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- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 30
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