选自专辑《When Love Speaks》
专辑介绍(维基):
When Love Speaks is a compilation album that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets - some spoken, some set to music - and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics in April 2002.
The title comes from a speech in Love's Labour's Lost - "And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony" - which is, however, not on the album.
文本:
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" ("Sonnet 30")
performed by Kenneth Branagh
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye,unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since canceled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone.
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee,dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.