Batter my heart, three person'd God; for you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new. I, like an usurpt towne, to another due, Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end, Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue. Yet dearely I love you, and would be loved faine, But am betroth'd unto your enemie: Divorce mee, untie, or breake that knot againe, Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I Except you enthrall mee, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish mee.
Songs of Desperation and Comfort
Song Cycle by John Eaton (1935 - 2015)
1. Holy Sonnet no. XIV  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by John Donne (1572 - 1631), no title, appears in Holy Sonnets, no. 14
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Daniel Johannsen) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. Lullaby  [sung text checked 1 time]
Peace gently light upon you [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Patrick Creagh (1930 - 2012), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. Lear on the Heath  [sung text checked 1 time]
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers [to]1 oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in King Lear, Act III, Scene 2
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Mihály Vörösmarty) , no title
- POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Paszkowski) , no title
1 Eaton: "of"
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4. To Old Roscoff: Lullaby in North‑West minor  [sung text checked 1 time]
Old nest of filibusters, lair [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Patrick Creagh (1930 - 2012), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Tristan Corbière (1845 - 1875), "Au vieux Roscoff", appears in Les amours jaunes, in Gens de mer
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. Blind man's cry  [sung text checked 1 time]
The murdered eye is not dead yet [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Patrick Creagh (1930 - 2012), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Tristan Corbière (1845 - 1875), "Cris d'aveugle", subtitle: "Sur l'air bas-breton: Ann hini goz.", appears in Les amours jaunes, in 5. Armor
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