Sonnet CX | Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there

Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and...

Language: English

Our translations: ITA

Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there,
And made my self a motley to the view,
Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,
Made old offences of affections new;
Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth
Askance and strangely; but, by all above,
These blenches gave my heart another youth,
And worse essays prov'd thee my best of love.
Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine appetite I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
    Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,
    Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.

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Text Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 110 [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 Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet CX", 1865, published [1878] [ medium voice and piano ], first setting; in Sonnets of Shakespeare, Selected from a complete Setting and Miscellaneous Songs, ed. Natalie Macfarren, London : Stanley Lucas, Weber [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Alas 'tis true", <<1876 [ medium voice and piano ], second setting [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 110, first published 1857

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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 119