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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

[Title unknown]
 (Sung text for setting by J. Brahms)
 See base text
Language: English 
  To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
  All in the morning betime,
  And I a maid at your window,
  To be your Valentine.
  Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
  And dupp'd the chamber-door;
  Let in the maid, that out a maid
  Never departed more.

 ... 

These words are sung by Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, but they are probably not by Shakespeare.

Composition:

    Set to music by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), WoO posth. 22 no. 3 (1873), stanza 1, from Ophelia-Lieder, no. 3, also set in German (Deutsch)

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in Hamlet
  • sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger) , no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-26
Line count: 17
Word count: 111

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