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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Dowland

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John Dowland (1562 - 1626)

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • A Pilgrimes Solace
    • Go nightly cares
    • Lasso vita mia ENG IRI
  • First Book of Songs or Airs
    • Come away, come sweet love (Text: Anonymous)
    • Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me? (Text: Anonymous)
    • Dear, if you change
    • My thoughts are wing'd with hopes (Text: George Cliford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland)
    • Go crystal tears
    • Now, oh now I needs must part (Text: Anonymous)
    • His golden locks Time hath to silver turned (Text: George Peele)
  • Robert Dowland's Musical Banquet [multi-composer]
    • In darkness let me dwell, composed by John Dowland (Text: Anonymous) FRE
    • To plead my faith, composed by Daniel Bachelar (Text: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex)
    • Change thy mind since she doth change, composed by Richard Martin (Text: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex)
    • Far from triumphing court, composed by John Dowland (Text: Henry Lea, Sir)
  • Second Book of Songs or Airs
    • Fine knacks for ladies DUT SPA
    • Woeful heart, with grief oppressèd! (Text: Anonymous)
    • I saw my lady weep
    • Toss not my soul, O Love (Text: Anonymous)
    • A shepherd in a shade
    • From Fame's desire (Text: Anonymous)
    • White as lilies was her face (Text: Anonymous)
  • The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs
    • Behold a wonder here
    • Time stands still
    • Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
    • What poor astronomers are they (Text: Anonymous)
    • By a fountain where I lay (Text: Anonymous)
    • The lowest trees have tops (Text: Edward Dyer, Sir) ITA
    • Flow not so fast, ye fountains
    • It was a time when silly bees could speak (Text: Robert, Earl of Essex)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • An heart that's broken and contrite (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
  • A shepherd in a shade (in Second Book of Songs or Airs)
  • Awake, sweet love (Text: Anonymous)
  • Away with these selfe loving lads (Text: Fulke Grenville Brooke, Baron)
  • Behold a wonder here (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs)
  • Burst forth, my tears
  • By a fountain where I lay (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Can she excuse my wrongs
  • Clear or cloudy
  • Come again: sweet love doth now invite (Text: 17th century) ITA
  • Come away, come sweet love (in First Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Come, heavy Sleep (Text: Anonymous) SPA
  • Come Holy Ghost, Creator, come (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
  • Dear, if you change (in First Book of Songs or Airs)
  • Disdain me still (Text: William, Earl of Pembroke)
  • Farewell unkind
  • Far from triumphing court (in Robert Dowland's Musical Banquet) (Text: Henry Lea, Sir)
  • Fie on this feigning
  • Fine knacks for ladies (in Second Book of Songs or Airs) DUT SPA
  • Flow, my tears (Text: Anonymous) CAT CHI SPA
  • Flow not so fast, ye fountains (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs)
  • From Fame's desire (in Second Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Go crystal tears (in First Book of Songs or Airs)
  • Go nightly cares (in A Pilgrimes Solace)
  • His golden locks Time hath to silver turned (in First Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: George Peele)
  • Humour, say what mak'st thou here
  • If my complaints could passions move
  • If that a sinner's sighs
  • In darkness let me dwell (in Robert Dowland's Musical Banquet) (Text: Anonymous) FRE
  • I saw my lady weep (in Second Book of Songs or Airs)
  • I shame at mine unworthiness (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
  • It was a time when silly bees could speak (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Robert, Earl of Essex)
  • Lady, if you so spite me
  • Lasso vita mia (in A Pilgrimes Solace) ENG IRI
  • Love those beams
  • Me, me and none but me
  • Mourn, Day is with darkness fled
  • My heart and tongue were twins FRE
  • My thoughts are wing'd with hopes (in First Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: George Cliford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland)
  • Now cease my wand'ring eyes
  • Now, oh now I needs must part (in First Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • O sweet woods (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
  • O what hath overwrought
  • Rest awhile, you cruel cares
  • Say, love, if ever thou didst find DUT
  • Shall I strive with words to move
  • Shall I sue?
  • Sleep, wayward thoughts
  • Sorrow stay
  • Sweet, stay awhile
  • Tell me, true Love
  • The lowest trees have tops (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Edward Dyer, Sir) ITA
  • Think'st thou then by thy feigning (Text: Anonymous)
  • Time's eldest son, Old Age
  • Time stands still (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs)
  • To ask for all thy love (Text: John Donne)
  • Toss not my soul, O Love (in Second Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Unquiet thoughts
  • Weep you no more, sad fountains (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: 16th century) FRE GER
  • Were every thought an eye
  • What if a day, or a month, or a yeare?, P. 79 (Text: Anonymous) ITA
  • What if I never speed?
  • What poor astronomers are they (in The Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • When Phoebus first did Daphne love
  • Where sin sore wounding
  • White as lilies was her face (in Second Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Who ever thinks or hopes of love (Text: Fulke Grenville Brooke, Baron)
  • Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me? (in First Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Woeful heart, with grief oppressèd! (in Second Book of Songs or Airs) (Text: Anonymous)

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