by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Nikolay Vasilyevich Gerbel (1827 - 1883)
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Language: English
Our translations: ITA
Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all triumphant splendor on my brow; But out, alack! he was but one hour mine; The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 33 [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 Dorothea Austin , "Full many a glorious morning have I seen", 1985-6 [ soprano and woodwind quintet ], from Mirrors, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Sonnet XXXIII", 1928 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Sonnet XXXIII", 1997, first performed 1997 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a glorious morning", 1949 [ voice and piano, or voice and trumpet and string quartet (or string orchestra) ], from Sonnets from Shakespeare, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XXXIII", 1864 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Hübner , copyright © ; composed by Hans-Georg Burghardt.
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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. 33, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Più di un glorioso mattino ho contemplato", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2004-08-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 109
Как часто видел я прекрасную Аврору
Language: Russian (Русский) after the English
Как часто видел я прекрасную Аврору, Когда златились вкруг луга, холмы и лес, Покорные ее ласкающему взору, И рдели ручейки алхимией небес. Но тучам вслед, она покорно позволяла Топтать в пути свое небесное лицо — И, нисходя с небес, позорно укрывала На западе во тьме лучей своих кольцо. Увы, так и мое светило дня сначала Победно надо мной горело и блистало, Явившись лишь на миг восторженным очам! Теперь же блеск его вновь туча затмевает. Но страсть моя за то его не презирает: Пусть меркнет солнце здесь, коль нет его и там!
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- 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. 33
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 часто видел я прекрасную Аврору", op. 45 no. 7 (1913) [ voice and piano ], from Сонеты В. Шекспира, no. 7, Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2021-07-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 91