Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise: Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, [Rock them, rock [them]1, lullaby.]2 [Care is heavy, therefore sleep you; You are care and care must keep you: Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby: Rock them, rock [them]1, lullaby.]3
Deux Chansons anciennes
Song Cycle by Alfredo Casella (1883 - 1947)
Word count: 102
1. Golden slumbers kiss your eyes [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship
- by Thomas Dekker (c1572 - 1632), "The song", appears in The Pleasant Comoedy of Patient Grissill, first published 1603 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Henry Chettle and Thomas Dekker, Patient Grissil, London, 1632. Modernized spelling.
1Warlock: "a lulla"2 omitted by Casella.
3 Casella replaces this stanza with the following:
Care you know not, therefore sleep, while I o'er you watch do keep. Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby.
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1. Rêves d'or pour ton sommeil [sung text not yet checked]
Rêves d'or pour ton sommeil . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship
- by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944)
- a text in English by Thomas Dekker (c1572 - 1632), "The song", appears in The Pleasant Comoedy of Patient Grissill, first published 1603
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2. Flaïolet [sung text checked 1 time]
En mai quand le rossignolet chante clair au vert buissonnet, je taille en saule un flageolet, je fais de fleurs un chapelet. Désir me vient d'amours chanter, chanter d'amour au bois seulet, pour me distraire et consoler d'un mal d'amour qu'il faut céler.
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 13th century ) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]