by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Paavo Cajander (1846 - 1913)

Come away, come away, death
Language: English 
Available translation(s): DUT GER ITA NOR
[Come away, come away, death]1,
  And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
  I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
  [O prepare it!]2
My part of death, no one so true
  Did share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
  On my black coffin let there be [strown]3;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
  My poor corpse, where my bones shall be [thrown]4:
[A thousand, [thousand]5 sighs to save,]6
  Lay me, O where
[Sad]5 true lover never find my grave,
  [To weep there!]7

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1 Fortner: "Death, come away, come away"
2 Dring: "Come prepare it"
3 Leguerney: "thrown"; Wilkinson: "strewn"
4 Leguerney: "strown"
5 omitted by Korngold
6 omitted by Argento.
7 Amram: "did share it." [mistake?]

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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  • Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1899) , "Kom alhier, kom alhier, dood!", appears in Gedichten, in Twaalf liederen van Shakespere, no. 6, first published 1868 ; composed by Petrus Leonardus Leopoldus "Peter" Benoit.
  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929) ; composed by Ernest Amédée Chausson.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) , no title ; composed by Paul Angerer, Carl Banck, Hermann Bischoff, Johannes Brahms, Walter Braunfels, Peter Cornelius, Johann Peter Cornelius D'Alquen, Friedrich Adrian Götzloff, Emil Kauffmann, Wilhelm Killmayer, Carl Loewe, Adolph Bernhard Marx, Arnold Mendelssohn, Roger Quilter, Felix von Woyrsch, Franz Wüllner.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Hermann Schneider (1860 - 1930) ; composed by Oscar Weil.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Harald Genzmer.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Georg Mantey ; composed by Wolfgang Fortner.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , written 1826 ; composed by Catharinus Elling, Carl Georg Peter Grädener.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Bernhard Ernst Scholz.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Gundolf (1880 - 1931) , no title, appears in Was ihr wollt ; composed by Wilhelm Petersen.
  • Also set in Norwegian (Bokmål), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Catharinus Elling.
  • Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Carl August Hagberg (1810 - 1864) ; composed by Jean Sibelius.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Jan Jonk) , "Kom toch gauw, kom toch gauw, dood", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (David Paley) , "Komm herbei, komm herbei, Tod", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Vieni, o morte", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Kom hit, kom nå hit, død", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Komierowski) , no title


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 99

Tule pois, tuoni, tule
Language: Finnish (Suomi)  after the English 
Tule pois, tuoni, tule,
Lepo mulle haudassa suo!
Kule pois, henki, kule!
Mun on tappanut immyt tuo.
Lumivalkeat liinat laitelkaa
Valitulle;
Niin kuolo ei kelleen suotuisaa
Kuin mulle.

Ei kukkaa, ei kukkaa
Tomulleni tuhlata saa,
Mua rukkaa, mua rukkaa
Ei ystävät voivottaa.
Ja paikka syrjäinen, jok' ei näy,
Mulle suokaa,
Niin ett' ei lempivät käy
Ja huokaa.

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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 57