Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite But in the onset come; so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might, And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 90 [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 XC - Then hate me when thou wilt", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 14 (1944-7) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XC", 1865 [ medium voice or high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- 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. 90 ; composed by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky.
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 90, first published 1857
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Word count: 121
Uzh esli ty' razlyubish` - tak teper`, Teper`, kogda ves` mir so mnoj v razdore. Bud` samoj gor`koj iz moix poter`, No tol`ko ne poslednej kaplej gorya! I esli skorb` dano mne prevozmoch`, Ne nanosi udara iz zasady'. Pust` burnaya ne razreshitsya noch` Dozhdlivy'm utrom - utrom bez otrady'. Ostav` menya, no ne v poslednij mig, Kogda ot melkix bed ya oslabeyu. Ostav` sejchas, chtob srazu ya postig, Chto e`to gore vsex nevzgod bol`nee, Chto net nevzgod, a est` odna beda - Tvoej lyubvi lishit`sya navsegda.
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Text Authorship:
- by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964), no title, appears in Шекспир Уильям - сонеты (Shekspir Uil'jam - sonety) = Sonnets of William Shakespeare, no. 90 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 90
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987), "Уж если ты разлюбишь - так теперь", op. 52 no. 9 (1953-5), from Десять сонетов Шекспира (Desjat' sonetov Shekspira) = Ten Sonnets of Shakespeare, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 83