by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873)
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Language: English
Our translations: ITA
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]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- 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.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- 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
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 109
J'ai bien vu maintes fois l'aurore...
Language: French (Français) after the English
J'ai bien vu maintes fois l'aurore glorieuse caresser le sommet des monts d'un regard souverain, effleurant de se face d'or les prairies vertes et dorant les pâles rivières par une céleste alchimie ; Puis tout à coup laisser les plus infimes nuages écraser de leur roue hideuse sa figure céleste, et, cachant son visage au monde désolé, s'enfuir, inaperçue, dans l'ouest avec cet affront. Ainsi, à l'aube d'une matinée, mon soleil a jeté sur mon front sa triomphante splendeur. Mais c'est fini, hélas ! je ne l'ai eu qu'une heure ; les nuages me l'ont masqué désormais. Pourtant mon amour ne le dédaigne nullement pour cela ; les soleils de ce monde peuvent s'éclipser quand le soleil du ciel s'éclipse.
About the headline (FAQ)
Text Authorship:
- by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873), no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 33, first published 1857 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 33
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-08-17
Line count: 14
Word count: 116