by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Miranda's Lament See original
Language: English
Miranda:
If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the face of sky
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! ... O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere
It should the good ship so have swallowed, and
The fraughting souls within her.
Prospero: Be collected:
No more amazement: tell your pitying heart
There's no harm done.
Composition:
- Set to music by Kaija Saariaho (1952 - 2023), "Miranda's Lament", 1997, published 2004? [ soprano, clarinet, harp, violin, contrabass ], from The Tempest Songbook, no. 3
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), appears in The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-21
Line count: 17
Word count: 131