[To-morrow is]1 Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning [betime]2, 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. [Indeed, without an oath, I'll make an end on't!]3 By Gis and by Saint Charity, Alack, and fie for shame! Young men will do't, if they come to't; By cock, they are to blame. Quoth she, before you tumbled me, You promised me to wed. [So]4 would I ha' done, by yonder sun, An thou hadst not come to my bed.
J. Brahms sets stanza 1
R. Quilter sets lines 1-4
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)These words are sung by Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, but they are probably not by Shakespeare.
1 Quilter: "Good morrow, 'tis "2 Quilter: "time"
3 omitted by Castelnuovo-Tedesco
4 Castelnuovo-Tedesco: "He answers,/ So"
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, appears in Hamlet [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Kim Borg (1919 - 2000), "To‑morrow is Saint Valentine's day ", op. 16 no. 2 (1974), published 1977, orchestrated 1981 [ soprano, flute, and viola ], from Ophelia Sings, no. 2, Copenhagen, Engstrøm & Sødring [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day", WoO posth. 22 no. 3 (1873), stanza 1, from Ophelia-Lieder, no. 3, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda (1927 - 2011), "Tomorrow is Saint Valentine' day" [ voice and piano ], from Canções de Ofélia, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "'Tis Saint Valentine's Day", 1917, lines 1-4 [ voice and piano ], arrangement of a melody by Thomas d'Urfey in «Wit and Mirth», 1707 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) , no title ; composed by Johannes Brahms.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) , no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864); composed by Richard Georg Strauss.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Eduard Lassen.
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Other 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
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text added to the website: 2003-11-26 00:00:00
Last modified: 2019-07-24 13:36:51
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Word count: 106
Guten Morgen! Heut ist Sankt Valentinstag! Seht, wie früh auf ich bin, Vor eurem Fenster steht die Maid Als Euer Valentin. Da sprang er auf und zog sich an, Und ließ sie ein in's Haus, Sie ging zur Kammer ein als Maid Doch nicht als Maid heraus. Herr Jesus, ach, Barmherzigkeit! O pfui, was ist geschen? Ein junger Mann thut's, wenn er kann, Mein Sir, das ist nicht schön. Eh du's gethan, has du mir doch Die Eh' versprochen fest. Wort hielt ich dir, hätt'st du zu mir Dich nicht gelegt in's Nest.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with L. Seeger, Hamlet, in: Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, Seibenter Band, Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, [1867-68], pages 143-144
Note: Ophelia’s song is interrupted at several points by various other characters and herself. Those interruptions have not been included above.
Authorship
- by Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, no title, appears in Hamlet and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
Text added to the website: 2016-10-24 00:00:00
Last modified: 2019-07-24 13:38:17
Line count: 16
Word count: 93