Who will believe my verse? - Gray, Michael

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"Part of an on-going project called "Book of Sonnets""

◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♯ Key C major

♬ Voicing → SAB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G0 – C6

¶ Language → English

Measures 114

Texture Homophonic

Parts 7

Instruments Piano

Pages 11

CPDL # 51710

Editor Michael Gray

Posted 2018-11-05

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

F#3 – D-5

Alto

D3 – B4

Baritone

F#2 – D4

MusicXML Part

G1 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes, And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say "This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces." So should my papers, yellow'd with their age, Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue, And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage And stretched meter of an antic song: But were some some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice, --in it, and in my rhyme. ''-Wm. Shakespeare (Sonnet XVII)''

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