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Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares That do arise from painful melancholy; My life so ill [through]1 want of comfort fares, That unto thee I consecrate it wholly. Sweet Night, draw on; my griefs, when they be told To shades and darkness, find some ease from paining; And while thou all in silence dost enfold, I then shall have best time for my complaining.
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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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Draw On, Sweet Night", op. 228 (1949) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Draw On, Sweet Night", op. 463 (1956) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Milford Rutter, CBE (b. 1945), "Draw on, sweet Night", from Birthday Madrigals, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Austin Sykes (1909 - 1962), "Draw on, sweet Night", 1946, first performed 1946 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Wilbye (1574 - 1638), "Draw on, sweet night", published 1609 [ vocal sextet ], from Second Set of Madrigals, confirmed with Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, pages 21-22. [sung text checked 1 time]
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Nicolaas (Koos) Jaspers) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 68
Kom bij mij, o zoete nacht, een betere vriendschap ken ik niet in al mijn zorg en smartelijk verdriet Mijn leven zonder troost, zo zwaar en moe, wijd ik geheel en al aan uw genade toe. O zoete nacht, kom ! Wanneer ik al mijn droefenis toevertrouw aan diepe duisternis, verzacht dat enigszins de pijn. En als gij met uw stilte om mij heen wilt zijn dan zijt gij, veel meer dan de dagen de beste tijd voor al mijn klagen
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-19
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Word count: 80