Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - Patterson, Graham

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"Composed in 2024"

⌛ Period → Contemporary

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♯ Key C major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G2 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 29

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments SATB

Pages 5

CPDL # 80157

Editor Graham Patterson

Posted 2024-04-09

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

C4 – E5

Alto

F#3 – B4

Tenor

E3 – G4

Bass

G2 – E-4

¶Lyrics / 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.

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