O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live: Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give. So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease, When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear. Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honour might uphold Against the stormy gusts of winter's day And barren rage of death's eternal cold? O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know You had a father: let your son say so.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 13
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- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot) , no title, appears in Œuvres Complètes de Shakspeare Volume VIII, in Sonnets, no. 13, first published 1863
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 13, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sonetto XIII", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Не изменяйся, будь самим собой. Ты можешь быть собой, пока живёшь. Когда же смерть разрушит образ твой, Пусть будет кто-то на тебя похож. Тебе природой красота дана На очень краткий срок, и потому Пускай по праву перейдёт она К наследнику прямому твоему. В заботливых руках прекрасный дом Не дрогнет перед натиском зимы, И никогда не воцарится в нём Дыханье смерти, холода и тьмы. О, пусть, когда настанет твой конец, Звучат слова: ъБыл у меня отец!ъ
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Note on TransliterationsComposition:
- Set to music by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987), "Не изменяйся, будь самим собой", op. 52 no. 6 (1953-5), from Десять сонетов Шекспира (Desjat' sonetov Shekspira) = Ten Sonnets of Shakespeare, no. 6
Text Authorship:
- by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964), no title, appears in Шекспир Уильям - сонеты (Shekspir Uil'jam - sonety) = Sonnets of William Shakespeare, no. 13
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- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 13
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