Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Love Songs
Song Cycle by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)
1. Eloise to Abelard  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), no title, in "Eloise to Abelard", line 74
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Look out upon the stars, my love,
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Authorship:
- by Edward Coate Pinckney (1802 - 1828), "A serenade"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. Cor Cordium  [sung text checked 1 time]
[Sweet Heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh never For thee the lowered banner, the lost endeavour! The weapons are still unforged that thee and me shall dissever, For I in thy heart have swelling, and thou too in mine for ever. Can a silken cord strangle love, or a steel sword sever? Or be as a bruiséd reed, the flow'r of joy for ever?]1 Love is a beautiful dream, [a deathless endeavour And for thee the lowered banner, O Sweet Heart, never]1!
Authorship:
- by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Cor Cordium", appears in The Hour of Beauty, first published 1907
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4. Jacqueline  [sung text checked 1 time]
[Oh!]1 She was [good]2 as she was fair, None -- none on Earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her.
Authorship:
- by Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855), no title, in the poem "Jacqueline", part 1, beginning of stanza 5
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5. Don Juan  [sung text checked 1 time]
Alas, the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing.
Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), no title, written 1819, appears in Don Juan, Canto II, stanza 199
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For stony limits cannot hold love out.
Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2 (Romeo)
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- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
7. Love  [sung text checked 1 time]
All mankind love a lover.
Authorship:
- by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), no title, appears in Love & Friendship, in Love
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