by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
See those sweet eyes
Language: English
See those sweet eyes, those more than sweetest eyes, eyes whom the starres exceede not in their grace: See Love at gaze, Love that faine would devise, but cannot speake to plead his wondrous case. Love would discharge, the dewty of his hart, in beauties praise, whose greatnes doth denye, wordes to his thoughts, & thoughts to her desart, which high conceyts since nothing can supply. Love heere constraynd, through conquest to confesse, byds silence sighe, that tongue cannot expresse.
W. Byrd sets stanza 1 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
W. Byrd sets stanzas 2-3 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
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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 William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "See those sweet eyes", published 1589, stanza 1 [SATTB chorus a cappella], from the collection Songs of sundrie natures, no. 29. [text verified 1 time]
- by William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "Love would discharge", published 1589, stanzas 2-3 [SATTB chorus a cappella], from the collection Songs of sundrie natures, no. 34. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 80