by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874)
Those hours, that with gentle work did...
Language: English
Our translations: ITA
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there; Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 5 [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 , "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame", 1985-6 [ narrator and woodwind quintet ], from Mirrors, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stephan Baekers , "Shakespeare -- Sonnet V", 1984 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael G. Cunningham (b. 1937), "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame", op. 112 no. ? (1985) [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Shakespeare Sonnets, Set 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Loeb , "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame", 1980 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Shakespeare Sonnets [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet V", 1864 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Winkler , "Sonnet V", 1978 [ mezzo-soprano, tenor and instrumental ensemble (10 instruments) ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Winkler , "Sonnet V", 1981 [ SATB quartet and piano ], from Cycle for Several Voices and Piano, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Latvian (Latviešu valoda), a translation by A. Balodis ; composed by Pauls Miervaldis Dambis.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot) , no title, appears in Œuvres Complètes de Shakspeare Volume VIII, in Sonnets, no. 5, first published 1863
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 5, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-10-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 104
Les heures qui, par leur doux travail,...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Les heures qui, par leur doux travail, ont créé ce beau regard qui attire tous les yeux, joueront envers lui le rôle de tyrans et détruiront ces perfections adorables, car le temps ne s'arrête jamais, il mène l'été jusqu'à l'hiver odieux, et là le confond: la sève est arrêtée par la gelée, les feuilles vertes sont tombées, les beautés sont couvertes de neige, la stérilité règne partout; alors si l'essence de l'été ne demeurait pas captive comme un prisonnier liquide dans des murs de verre, les effets de la beauté disparaîtraient avec la beauté, elle n'existerait plus et il n'en resterait aucun souvenir; mais les fleurs distillées, lors même que l'hiver les atteint, ne perdent que leur éclat extérieur, leur essence subsiste dans toute sa douceur.
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Text Authorship:
- by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874), no title, appears in Œuvres Complètes de Shakspeare Volume VIII, in Sonnets, no. 5, first published 1863 [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. 5
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: 2009-01-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 126