Sonnet 27 (Kathryn Rose)
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- Editor: Kathryn Rose (submitted 2016-02-25). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 93 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Sonnet 27
Composer: Kathryn Rose
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2016
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Original text and translations
English text
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts from far, where I abide
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! Thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.