Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Graham Patterson)

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• (Posted 2024-04-09)  CPDL #80157:       

Editor: Graham Patterson (submitted 2024-04-09).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
Composer: Graham Patterson
Lyricist: Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: unpublished
Description: Composed in 2024

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 wander'st 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.