by Phineas Fletcher (1580 - 1650)
Drop, drop, slow tears
Language: English
Available translation(s): DUT
Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from Heaven The news and Prince of Peace: Cease not, wet eyes, His mercy to entreat; To cry for vengeance Sin doth never cease. In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears; Nor let His eye See sin, but through my tears.
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Authorship:
- by Phineas Fletcher (1580 - 1650), "A litany" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "Drop, drop, slow tears ", sprano, SATB chorus, and organ [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (1876 - 1906), "A litany", 1897, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], London, Boosey & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (1876 - 1906), "A litany", <<1897, published 1899, first performed 1897 [ SSAA chorus ], London, Joseph Williams [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Drop, drop, slow tears" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears", op. 614 (1962) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "A Litany", op. 3 (Two Songs) no. 2 (1922) [ voice and string quartet ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eva Ruth Spalding (1882 - 1969), "A litany", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris : Éditions Senart [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Nicolaas (Koos) Jaspers) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 55