by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
My mother had a maid call'd Barbara
Language: English
My mother had a maid call'd Barbara: She was in love, and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;' An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it: that song to-night Will not go from my mind; I have much to do, But to go hang my head all at one side, And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960) ; composed by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov.
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