She by the river sat, and sitting there, She wept, and made it deeper by a tear.
Twenty-one songs , opus 23
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)
1. Upon Julia's weeping  [sung text not yet checked]
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Another upon her weeping"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. Upon Julia's clothes  [sung text not yet checked]
Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) [how]1 sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon Julia's clothes"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Still: "more"
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3. His wish to privacie  [sung text not yet checked]
Give me a cell To dwell, Where no foot hath A path: There will I spend And end My wearied years In tears.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "His wish to privacy"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]4. To Oenone  [sung text not yet checked]
What conscience, say, is it in thee, When I a heart had one, To take away that heart from me, And to retain thy own? For shame or pity now incline To play a loving part; Either to send me kindly thine, Or give me back my heart. Covet not both; but if thou dost Resolve to part with neither, Why! yet to show that thou art just, Take me and mine together.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To Oenone"
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Let's now take our time While [w'are]1 in our prime, And old, old age is afar off: For the evil, evil days Will come on apace, Before we can be aware of.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To be merry"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Quilter: "we're"
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6. Love lightly pleased  [sung text not yet checked]
Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me; Or let her walk, or stand, or sit, The posture hers, I'm pleas'd with it; Or let her tongue be still, or stir, Graceful is every thing from her; Or let her grant, or else deny, My love will fit each history.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Love lightly pleased"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]7. Upon Electra  [sung text not yet checked]
When out of bed my love doth spring, 'Tis but as day a-kindling; But when she's up and fully dress'd, 'Tis then broad day throughout the east.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon Electra"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]8. Upon a child that dyed  [sung text not yet checked]
Here she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood: Who as soon fell fast asleep As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings but not stir The earth that lightly covers her.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon a child that died"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]9. Upon Julia's hair filled with dew  [sung text not yet checked]
Dew sat on Julia's hair And spangled too, Like leaves that laden are With trembling dew: Or glittered to my sight, As when the beams Have their reflected light Danc'd by the streams.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon Julia's hair fill'd with dew"
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Researcher for this page: Paul Hindemith10. To laurels  [sung text not yet checked]
A funeral stone Or verse I covet none, But only crave Of you that I may have A sacred laurel springing from my grave: Which being seen, Blest with perpetual green, May grow to be Not so much call'd a tree As the eternal monument of me.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To laurels"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]11. Divination by a daffodil  [sung text not yet checked]
When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead; Lastly, safely buried.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Divination by a daffodil"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]12. Upon a maide
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13. The sprig of eglantine  [sung text not yet checked]
From this bleeding hand of mine Take this sprig of eglantine, Which, though sweet unto your smell, Yet the fretful briar will tell, He who plucks the sweets shall prove Many thorns to be in love.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "The bleeding hand; or, the sprig of eglantine given to a maid"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]14. His recantation  [sung text not yet checked]
Love, I recant, And pardon crave That lately I offended; But 'twas, Alas! To make a brave, But no disdain intended. No more I'll vaunt, For now I see Thou only hast the power To find And bind A heart that's free, And slave it in an hour.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "His recantation"
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16. On gilli‑flowers begotten  [sung text not yet checked]
What was't that fell but now From that warm kiss of ours? Look, look! by love I vow They were two gilly-flowers. Let's kiss and kiss again, For if so be our closes Make gilly-flowers, then I'm sure they'll fashion roses.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "On gilly-flowers begotten"
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
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18. The bell‑man  [sung text not yet checked]
From noise of scare-fires1 rest ye free, From murders Benedicite. From all mischances that may fright Your pleasing slumbers in the night, Mercy secure ye all, and keep The goblin from ye while ye sleep. Past one o'clock, and almost two! My masters all, good-day to you.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "The bellman"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 alarms of fire
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19. To Oenone  [sung text not yet checked]
Sweet Oenone, do but say Love thou dost, though love says nay. Speak me fair; for lovers be Gently kill'd by flattery.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To Oenone"
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[Sappho]1, I will choose to go Where the northern winds do blow Endless ice and endless snow: Rather than I once would see But a winter's face in thee, To benumb my hopes and me.
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "To Sappho", appears in The Hesperides
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Carmichael: "Sapho"
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21. To Anthea
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- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
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