Shakespeare's Sonnet 104 (Carlotta Ferrari)
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- Editor: Carlotta Ferrari (submitted 2016-04-01). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 328 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Shakespeare's Sonnet 104
Composer: Carlotta Ferrari
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.