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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Lady Macbeth
Language: English 
Lady Macbeth: 
The raven himself is hoarse 
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan 
Under my battlements. 
Come, you spirits 
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, 
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full 
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; 
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, 
That no compunctious visitings of nature 
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between 
The effect and it! Come, thick night, 
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, 
To cry ‘Hold, hold!’

Lady Macbeth Act 1, Scene 5

Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) [author's text not yet checked 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 Aija Draguns (b. 1999), "Lady Macbeth", 2025 [ soprano, tenor saxophone and piano ]
        Score: Youtube [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-11-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 106

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