Ah, Cruel Love! must I endure Thy many scorns, and find no cure? Say, are thy medicines made to be Helps to all others but to me? I'll leave thee, and to Pansies come: Comforts you'll afford me some: You can ease my heart, and do What Love could ne'er be brought unto.
Nine Sets of Four Songs Each, Set III , opus 84
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)
1. To Pansies [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
2. Let me sleep this night away [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Let me sleep this night away, Till the dawning of the day ; Then at th' opening of mine eyes I, and all the world, shall rise.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon himself being buried"
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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 251.
3. Upon a comely and curious maid [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
If men can say that beauty dies, Marbles will swear that here it lies. If, reader, then thou canst forbear In public loss to shed a tear, The dew of grief upon this stone Will tell thee pity thou hast none.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon a comely and curious maid"
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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 256.
4. Frolic virgins once these were [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Frolic virgins once these were, Over-loving, living here ; Being here their ends denied, Ran for sweethearts mad, and died. Love, in pity of their tears, And their loss in blooming years, For their restless here-spent hours, Gave them heart's-ease turn'd to flowers.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "How pansies or heart's-ease came first"
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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 190.