by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Your shining eyes and golden hair
Language: English
Your shining eyes and golden hair, Your Lily-rosed lips most fair; Your other beauties that excel, Men cannot choose but like them well. But when, for them, they say they'll die, Believe them not, they do but lie!
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Thomas Bateson (c1570 - c1630), "Your shining eyes and golden hair", published 1604 [chorus], from First Set of English Madrigals [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-07-28
Line count: 6
Word count: 38