Sonnet XXV | Let those who are in favour with their stars

Let those who are in favour with their...

Language: English

Our translations: ITA

Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foiled,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled:
  Then happy I, that love and am beloved,
  Where I may not remove nor be removed.

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Text Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 25 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Juriaan Andriessen (1925 - 1996), "Sonnet no. 25", published 1970 [ alto and tenor; one musician for chalumeau and/or clarinet and percussion; one for viola da gamba and percussion; and one for clavicembalo, portatief [org], and percussion ], from To Wet a Widow's Eye [sung text not yet checked]
by Leslie Kondorossy (1915 - 1989), "Let those who are in favour", op. 138 no. ? (1962) [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Five Shakespeare Sonnets [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XXV", 1865 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) , no title, appears in Шекспир Уильям - сонеты (Shekspir Uil'jam - sonety) = Sonnets of William Shakespeare, no. 25 ; composed by Sergei Al'bertovich Kortes, Aleksandr Ivanovich Pirumov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 25, first published 1857

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-10-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 108