by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Can doleful notes?
Language: English
Can doleful notes, to measured accents set, Express unmeasured griefs which Time forget? No, let chromatic tunes, harsh without ground, Be sullen music for a tuneless heart. Chromatic tunes most like my passions sound, As if combined to bear their falling part. Uncertain certain turns, of thoughts forecast, Bring back the same, then die, and dying, last.
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 John Danyel (1564 - 1626), "Can doleful notes?" [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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