But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine; And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end. I see a better state to me belongs Than that which on thy humour doth depend: Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind, Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. O! what a happy title do I find, Happy to have thy love, happy to die! But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 92 [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 Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XCII", 1863-6 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Nikolay Vasilyevich Gerbel (1827 - 1883) , no title ; composed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov.
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 92, first published 1857
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Word count: 120
Kak ni zhelala b ty' ukry't`sya ot menya, Poka ya zhiv — moej ty' by't` ne perestanesh`; YA zh budu zhit`, poka zhiva lyubov` tvoya, Kotoroyu davno menya k sebe ty' manish`. Itak, mne nuzhdy' net strashit`sya novy'x bed, Kotory'x uzh nichto na svete ne povy'sit; K tomu zh v moej sud`be chut` viden buri sled, A ot tvoix ona kaprizov ne zavisit. No ty' ne ogorchish` nevernost`yu svoej Togo, kto perezhit` ee ne v sostoyan`e. Da, ya vdvojne schastliv v lyubvi k tebe moej Eshhe tem, chto ona zhivet v moem dy'xan`e. No vse zhe est` i tut durnaya storona: Ved` ya mogu ne znat`, chto ty' mne neverna.
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Authorship:
- by Nikolay Vasilyevich Gerbel (1827 - 1883), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 92
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935), "Как ни желала б ты укрыться от меня", op. 45 no. 5 (1913) [ voice and piano ], from Сонеты В. Шекспира, no. 5, Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2021-07-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 110