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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
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Word count: 109
Più di un glorioso mattino ho contemplato che con il suo occhio sovrano abbelliva le cime dei monti, con risplendente volto baciando ogni verde prato, e con celeste alchimia indorando le pallide correnti; Ma, subito dopo, permettendo alle più pesanti nubi di opprimere, con un triste velame, il suo celestiale sembiante, e al mondo desolato il suo viso nascondere, con quest'onta fuggendo, furtivo, verso occidente: E così pure il mio sole che brillava al mattino Sulla mia fronte, con splendore e con fasto, Ahimè è andato via e solo un'ora fu mio, Una distesa di nuvole me lo tiene nascosto. E tuttavia non per questo il mio amore è sdegnato; Possono oscurarsi i soli terrestri se pure quello in cielo è velato.
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Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 33
This text was added to the website: 2009-01-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 122