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- (Posted 2017-01-13) CPDL #42626:
- Editor: Michael Gray (submitted 2017-01-13). Score information: Letter (landscape), 8 pages, 204 kB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
- Edition notes: Part of an on-going series "Book of Sonnets."
General Information
Title: Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Composer: Michael Gray
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
{{Published}} is obsolete (code commented out), replaced with {{Pub}} for works and {{PubDatePlace}} for publications.
Description: Part of an on-going series "Book of Sonnets."
External websites: http://www.graymichael.com
Original text and translations
English text
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare (Sonnet XVIII)