by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy...
Language: English
Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade, When Cytherea, all in love forlorn, A longing tarriance for Adonis made Under an osier growing by [a brook]1, A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen: Hot was the day; she hotter that did look For his approach, that often there had been. Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by, And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim; The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye, Yet not so wistly as the queen on him: He spying her, bounc'd in, whereas he stood: O Jove,' quoth she, 'why was I not a flood!'
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Mucci: "the brock"
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, appears in The Passionate Pilgrim, no. 6, first published 1599 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by John C. Mucci , "The Passionate Pilgrim", 1994 [ soprano and contrabass ], from Strange Attractors, no. 2
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
Researcher for this page: John Mucci
This text was added to the website: 2004-10-20
Line count: 14
Word count: 117