by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
If streames of teares
Language: English
If streames of teares, Could lessen extreame griefe, Or cause a minutes truce to woe, If deepest sighes, Sad plants might yeeld reliefe, These sorrowes to forgoe, Myne eyes, my heart, My tongue should neare refraine to weepe, To sigh and to complaine, But sorrowe such impression left, Of light of speech, it mee berest, Onely to sigh is left to mee, In this my greatest miserie.
Text 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 William Corkine (fl. 1610-2), "If streames of teares", published 1610 [voice, lute, bass viol], from the collection Airs to sing and play to the Lute and Bass-viol, no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2016-06-08
Line count: 13
Word count: 67