Songs

Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day

by Wolfgang Rihm From Ophelia Sings (2012)

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Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day
English source: William Shakespeare

Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime,
nd I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donned his clothes,
And dupped the chamber door.
Let in the maid that out a maid
Never departed more.

Pretty Ophelia-

Indeed, without an oath I’ll make an end on ’t:

By Gis and by Saint Charity,
Alack, and fie, for shame!
Young men will do ’t, if they come to ’t.
By Cock, they are to blame.
Quoth she, “Before you tumbled me,
You promised me to wed.”

He answers,
“So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
An thou hadst not come to my bed.”

From Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

Composer

Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer. Rihm is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival.

Poet

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant…

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