by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
Translation
Song of the winged loves
Language: English after the English
The whiles an hundred little wingèd loves, Like divers fethered doves, Shall fly and flutter round about your bed, And in the secret dark, that none reproves Their pretty stealths shall work, and snares shall spread To filch away sweet snatches of delight, Concealed through covert night.
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- a text in English by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), no title, appears in Amoretti and Epithalamion, in Epithalamion, no. 20
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Song of the winged loves", 1957, published 1957 [ baritone, mixed chorus, orchestra ], from cantata Epithalamion, no. 10, London, Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
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