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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

My love is strengthen'd, though more...
Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Our love was new and then but in the spring
When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
  Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,
  Because I would not dull you with my song.

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Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 102 [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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Sonnet CII - My love is strengthen'd", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 17 (1944-7) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edward James Harper (b. 1941), "My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming", 1964 [ SSAATTBB chorus ], from Three Shakespeare Sonnets, no. 2, partson [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet CII", 1860 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), adapted by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) , appears in Шекспир Уильям - сонеты (Shekspir Uil'jam - sonety) = Sonnets of William Shakespeare, no. 102 ; composed by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky.
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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. 102, first published 1857
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "E' più forte il mio amore, anche se più debole appare", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

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