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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Purcell

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Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable, Z. 571 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. I sigh'd, and I pin'd (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 2. There's nothing so fatal as Woman (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 3. Fled is my love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 4. 'Tis death alone (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 5. I'll mount to yon blue Coelum (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 6. I'll sail upon the Dog-star (Text: Thomas d'Urfey after John Fletcher) ⊗ CAT CHI
    • no. 7. Jenny, 'gin you can love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 8. If thou wilt give me back my love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Aureng-Zebe -- or The Great Mogul, Z. 573 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. I see, she flies me (Text: John Dryden) SPA
  • Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Z. 321
    • Celebrate this festival (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester, Z. 342
    • no. 1. Overture
    • no. 2. Who can from joy refrain, this gay (Text: Nahum Tate)
    • no. 3. A Prince of glorious race descended (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
    • no. 4. The Father brave as e’er was Dane (Text: Nahum Tate)
    • no. 5. The Graces in his Mother shine (Text: Nahum Tate)
    • no. 6. Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum (Text: Nahum Tate)
    • no. 7. If now he burns with noble flame (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Bonduca - or - The British Heroine, Z. 574 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom (Text: John Fletcher) FRE
  • Come, ye Sons of Art, Z. 323
    • no. 2. Come, ye Sons of Art (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
    • no. 3. Sound the trumpet (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
    • no. 5. Strike the viol (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT FRE
    • no. 6. The Honour of a Jubilee (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
    • no. 7. Bid the Virtues (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
    • no. 8. These are the sacred charms (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
    • no. 9. See Nature, rejoicing (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
  • Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 [opera]
    • no. 37. Dido's Lament (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT FRE ITA SPA
  • Don Quixote, Z. 578 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 3. Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 9. From rosy bow'rs (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
  • Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia, Z. 328
    • no. 1. [No title]
    • no. 2. Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! fill ev'ry Heart! (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 3. Hark! hark! each Tree its silence breaks (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 4. Tis Nature's voice (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 5. Soul of the World (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 6. Thou tun'st this world (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 7. With that sublime celestial lay (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 8. Wondrous machine! (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 9. The airy violin (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 10. In vain the am'rous flute (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 11. The fife and all the harmony of war (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 12. Let these among themselves contest (Text: Nicholas Brady)
    • no. 13. Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail to thee (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Harmonia Sacra [multi-composer]
    • An evening hymn, composed by Henry Purcell (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
    • My op'ning eyes are purg'd, composed by Henry Purcell (Text: Anonymous)
    • The blessed Virgin's expostulation, composed by Henry Purcell (Text: Nahum Tate)
    • The night is come, composed by Henry Purcell
  • Henry the Second, King of England, Z. 580 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. In vain 'gainst Love, in vain I strove (Text: John Bancroft; William Mountfort)
  • King Arthur or The British Worthy [a play - incidental music]
    • no. . For love ev'ry creature (Text: John Dryden)
    • no. 8. How blest are shepherds (Text: John Dryden) CAT
    • no. 9. Come if you dare (Text: John Dryden)
    • no. 16. Shepherd, leave decoying (Text: John Dryden) CAT
    • no. 20. What power art thou (Text: John Dryden) FRE
    • no. 35a. You say 'tis Love (Text: John Dryden)
    • no. 38. Fairest Isle (Text: John Dryden) CAT CHI FRE GER SPA
  • Love Triumphant, Z. 582 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. How happy's the husband (Text: William Congreve)
  • Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, Z. 329
    • no. 1. Laudate Ceciliam, in voce et organo (Text: Anonymous) ENG
    • no. 2. Modulemini psalmum novum (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 3. Symphony
    • no. 4. Dicite Virgini, canite martyri (Text: Anonymous)
  • O Give Thanks, Z. 33
    • That I may see (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Oroonoko, Z. 584 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 3. Celemene (Text: Thomas Southerne)
  • Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z. 585 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. Sweeter than roses (Text: Richard Norton) CAT FRE
  • Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z. 627
    • no. ?. Let the Graces (Text: Thomas Betterton after John Fletcher) ⊗
    • no. 18. What shall I do (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗
    • no. 31b. Since from my dear Astrea's sight (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗ FRE
    • no. 33. Still I'm wishing (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗
    • no. 35. Tell me why (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗
  • Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z. 587 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. There's not a swain (Text: John Fletcher) CAT GER
  • The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
    • no. 7. Come all ye songsters (Text: Elkanah Settle)
    • no. 13. Secresy's Song (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
    • no. 23. When I have often heard young maids complaining (Text: Elkanah Settle)
    • no. 39bc. An Epithalamium (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE ITA
    • no. 40. The plaint (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
    • no. 47. Hark! how all things (Text: Elkanah Settle)
    • no. 48. Hark! now the echoing Air (Text: Elkanah Settle)
    • no. 53. Turn then thine eyes upon those glories there (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • The Fatal Marriage -or- The Innocent Adultery, Z. 595 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. The danger is over (Text: Thomas Southerne)
    • no. 2. I sigh'd and owned my love
  • The Female Vertuosos, Z. 596 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. Love, thou art best (Text: Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea)
  • The History of King Richard the Second, Z. 581 [stage composition]
    • no. 1. Retir'd from any mortal's sight (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
  • The Indian Emperor, Z. 598 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. I look'd and saw within (Text: John Dryden)
  • The Indian Queen, Z. 630 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. . Let us wander (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) GER
    • no. . I attempt from Love's sickness to fly (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) CAT FRE GER
    • no. 4c. Why should men quarrel (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
    • no. 15. Seek not to know (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
    • no. 19. They tell us that your mighty powers (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
  • The Libertine -or- The Libertine Destroyed, Z. 600 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. Nymphs and Shepherds (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
    • no. 2. Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
    • no. 3. To arms, Heroick Prince
  • The Maid's Last Prayer -or- Any Rather Than Fail, Z. 601 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. Though you make no return (Text: Thomas Southerne)
    • no. 2. No, resistance is but vain (Text: Anthony Henly) CAT
    • no. 3. Tell me no more (Text: William Congreve)
  • The Marriage-hater Match'd, Z. 602 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. As soon as the chaos (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
    • no. 2. How vile are the Sordid Intrigues (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • The Married Beau, Z. 603 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. See! where repenting Celia lyes (Text: John Crowne)
  • The Massacre of Paris, Z. 604 [a play - incidental music]
    • Thy Genius, lo (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
  • The Mock Marriage [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 1. Oh! how you protest (Text: Thomas Scott)
  • Theodosius - or - The Force of Love, Z. 606 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 8. Hail to the myrtle shade (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
  • The Rival Sisters -or- The Violence of Love, Z. 609
    • no. 10. Celia has a thousand charms (Text: Robert Gould) SPA
    • no. 11. Take not a woman's anger ill (Text: Robert Gould) CAT
  • The Tempest or The Enchanted Island, Z. 631
    • no. 10. Dear Pretty Youth (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
    • no. 14. Your Awful Voice (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
    • no. 15. Halcyon days (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Timon of Athens, Z. 632 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 3. Love in their little veins inspires (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
    • no. 11. Love quickly is pall'd (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Tyrannic Love -or- The Royal Martyr, Z. 613 [a play - incidental music]
    • no. 2. Ah! how sweet it is to love (Text: John Dryden)
  • Welcome Song for Charles II, Z. 326
    • no. 1. Symphony
    • no. 2. From those serene and rapturous joys (Text: Thomas Flatman)
    • no. 3. Behold th' indulgent Prince is come (Text: Thomas Flatman)
    • no. 4. Not with an Helmet or a glitt'ring Spear (Text: Thomas Flatman)
    • no. 5. Welcome as soft refreshing show'rs (Text: Thomas Flatman)
    • no. 6. From those serene and rapturous joys (Text: Thomas Flatman)
    • no. 7. Nor does the Sun more comfort bring (Text: Thomas Flatman)
    • no. 8. With trumpets and shouts we receive the World's Wonder (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339
    • Here the deities approve (Text: Christopher Fishburn) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Catalog order

  • Be welcome then, great Sir
  • By beauteous softness
  • Dulcibella, whene'er I sue for a kiss (Text: A Henley)
  • Five reasons (Text: Henry Aldrich after Henry Aldrich)
  • How blest are shepherds (Text: John Dryden) CAT
  • I spy Celia, Celia eyes me
  • I was glad when they said unto me [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN DUT ENG LAT FRE GER
  • Nymphs and shepherds [multi-text setting] (Text: Rothery, Shadwell)
  • One, two, three
  • She loves and she confesses, too (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Strike the Viol (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT FRE
  • Sweetness of nature (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir)
  • The message (Text: Anonymous) GER
  • The Owl Is Abroad (Text: Ben Jonson)
  • Turn then thine eyes upon those glories there (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • When Myra sings, we seek th'enchanting sound (Text: George Granville, Lord Lansdowne) CAT
  • ZD. 77 . The night is come
  • Z. 15. Hear my prayer, O Lord (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
  • Z. 17a. In the midst of life we are in death (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE SPA
  • Z. 25. Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry? (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Z. 27. Man that is born of a woman (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE SPA
  • Z. 28. My beloved spake (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE FRE LAT RUS
  • Z. 31. My song shall be alway (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
  • Z. 33. That I may see (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Z. 35. O God, thou art my God (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
  • Z. 44. O sing unto the Lord (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
  • Z. 50. Remember not, Lord, our offences (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
  • Z. 58. Thou knowest Lord [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) SPA FRE ENG
  • Z. 58b. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) SPA
  • ZD. 72. My op'ning eyes are purg'd (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 184. Close thine eyes and sleep secure
  • Z. 186. Great God, and just (A penitential hymn) (Text: Jeremiah Taylor, Bishop)
  • Z. 188. How have I stray'd, my God? (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
  • Z. 189. How long, great God (Text: John Norris)
  • Z. 190. In the black dismal dungeon of despair (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
  • Z. 191. Let the night perish (Job's Curse) (Text: Jeremiah Taylor, Bishop)
  • Z. 192. Lord, what is Man (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
  • Z. 193. An evening hymn (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
  • Z. 195. Sleep, Adam, sleep GER
  • Z. 196. The blessed Virgin's expostulation (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 197. The earth trembled (Text: Francis Quarles)
  • Z. 198. Thou wakeful shepherd (A morning hymn) (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
  • Z. 199. We sing to Him (Text: Nathaniel Ingelo)
  • Z. 200. With sick and famish'd eyes (Text: George Herbert)
  • Z. 244. Catch
  • Z. 286. Under this stone
  • Z. 321. Celebrate this festival (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 323 no. 2. Come, ye Sons of Art (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
  • Z. 323 no. 3. Sound the trumpet (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
  • Z. 323 no. 5. Strike the viol (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT FRE
  • Z. 323 no. 6. The Honour of a Jubilee (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
  • Z. 323 no. 7. Bid the Virtues (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
  • Z. 323 no. 8. These are the sacred charms (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
  • Z. 323 no. 9. See Nature, rejoicing (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
  • Z. 326 no. 1. Symphony
  • Z. 326 no. 2. From those serene and rapturous joys (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 326 no. 3. Behold th' indulgent Prince is come (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 326 no. 4. Not with an Helmet or a glitt'ring Spear (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 326 no. 5. Welcome as soft refreshing show'rs (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 326 no. 6. From those serene and rapturous joys (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 326 no. 7. Nor does the Sun more comfort bring (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 326 no. 8. With trumpets and shouts we receive the World's Wonder (Text: Thomas Flatman)
  • Z. 328 no. 1. [No title]
  • Z. 328 no. 2. Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! fill ev'ry Heart! (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 3. Hark! hark! each Tree its silence breaks (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 4. Tis Nature's voice (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 5. Soul of the World (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 6. Thou tun'st this world (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 7. With that sublime celestial lay (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 8. Wondrous machine! (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 9. The airy violin (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 10. In vain the am'rous flute (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 11. The fife and all the harmony of war (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 12. Let these among themselves contest (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 328 no. 13. Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail to thee (Text: Nicholas Brady)
  • Z. 329 no. 1. Laudate Ceciliam, in voce et organo (Text: Anonymous) ENG
  • Z. 329 no. 2. Modulemini psalmum novum (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 329 no. 3. Symphony
  • Z. 329 no. 4. Dicite Virgini, canite martyri (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 331. Birthday Ode for Queen Mary (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir)
  • Z. 334. Raise, raise the voice (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 335. Sound the trumpet (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
  • Z. 339. Here the deities approve (Text: Christopher Fishburn) FRE
  • Z. 342 no. 1. Overture
  • Z. 342 no. 2. Who can from joy refrain, this gay (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 342 no. 3. A Prince of glorious race descended (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
  • Z. 342 no. 4. The Father brave as e’er was Dane (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 342 no. 5. The Graces in his Mother shine (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 342 no. 6. Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 342 no. 7. If now he burns with noble flame (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 344. Ye tuneful Muses
  • Z. 352. Ah! cruel nymph
  • Z. 353. Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love (Text: John Dryden) GER
  • Z. 355. Amidst the shades
  • Z. 356. Amintas, to my grief I see
  • Z. 357. Amintor, heedless of his flocks
  • Z. 358. Ask me to love no more
  • Z. 359. A thousand sev'ral ways I tried
  • Z. 360. Bacchus is a pow'r divine
  • Z. 361. Beware, poor shepherds
  • Z. 362. Cease, anxious world (Text: George Etheredge, Sir)
  • Z. 363. Cease, o my sad Soul (Text: C. Webbe)
  • Z. 364. Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux)
  • Z. 365. Corinna is divinely fair
  • Z. 367. Cupid, the slyest rogue alive (Text: Anonymous after Theocritus) FRE FRE
  • Z. 368. Farewell all joys (Text: Anonymous after Florimond de Remond) ⊗
  • Z. 369. Fly swift, ye hours
  • Z. 370. From silent shades
  • Z. 371. The knotting song (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir) GER
  • Z. 372. He himself courts his own ruin
  • Z. 373. How delightful's the life of an innocent swain (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Z. 374. How I sigh
  • Z. 375. I came, I saw, and was undone (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Z. 378. If grief has any pow'r to kill
  • Z. 379. If music be the food of love (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
  • Z. 380. If pray'rs and tears
  • Z. 381. I loved fair Celia
  • Z. 382. I love and I must
  • Z. 383. Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas (Text: R. Herbert) ENG
  • Z. 384. In Cloris all soft charms agree (Text: John Howe)
  • Z. 385. In vain we dissemble
  • Z. 386. I resolve against cringing and whining
  • Z. 387. I saw that you were grown so high
  • Z. 388. I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams (Text: ? Chamberlaine, Mrs.)
  • Z. 390. Let each gallant heart (Text: John Turner)
  • Z. 391. Let formal lovers still pursue
  • Z. 392. Love arms himself in Celia's eyes (Text: Matthew Prior)
  • Z. 393. Love is now become a trade
  • Z. 394. Lovely Albina's come ashore
  • Z. 395. Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance
  • Z. 396. Love, thou can'st hear (Text: Robert Howard, Sir)
  • Z. 397. More love or more disdain I crave (Text: C. Webbe)
  • Z. 399. My heart, whenever you appear
  • Z. 400. Not all my torments can your pity move CAT FRE
  • Z. 402. O! fair Cedaria
  • Z. 404. Olinda in the shades unseen
  • Z. 405. On the brow of Richmond Hill (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) CAT
  • Z. 406. O solitude, my sweetest choice (Text: Katherine Philips after Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant) CAT GER
  • Z. 407. Pastora's beauties when unblown
  • Z. 408. Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it
  • Z. 409. Phillis, talk no more of passion
  • Z. 410. Pious Celinda goes to prayers (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
  • Z. 411. Rashly I swore I would disown
  • Z. 412. Sawney is a bonny lad (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux) ITA
  • Z. 414. She that would gain a faithful lover (Text: Lady E. M.)
  • Z. 415. She, who my poor heart possesses
  • Z. 416. Since one poor view has drawn my heart
  • Z. 417. Spite of the godhead (Text: Anne Wharton)
  • Z. 418. Sweet, be no longer sad (Text: C. Webbe)
  • Z. 420. Sylvia, now your scorn give over
  • Z. 421. The fatal hour comes on apace
  • Z. 422. They say you're angry (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Z. 423. This poet sings the Trojan wars (Text: Anonymous after Anacreon) ⊗
  • Z. 424. Through mournful shades and solitary groves (Text: Richard Duke)
  • Z. 426. Urge me no more (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 428. What a sad fate is mine
  • Z. 429. What can we poor females do? CAT GER HEB
  • Z. 430. When first Amintas sued for a kiss (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 431. When first my shepherdess and I
  • Z. 432. When her languishing eyes said "Love!"
  • Z. 434. When my Aemelia smiles
  • Z. 435. When Strephon found his passion vain
  • Z. 437. While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep
  • Z. 438. Whilst Cynthia sung
  • Z. 440. Who but a slave can well express
  • Z. 441. Who can behold Florella's charms (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 443. Ye happy swains
  • Z. 444. Stript of their green our Groves appear (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux)
  • Z. 461. Beneath a dark and melancholy grove
  • Z. 462. Draw near, you lovers (Text: Thomas Stanley)
  • Z. 463. Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 464. Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr. John Playford (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 465. High on a throne of glitt'ring ore (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 466. Let us, kind Lesbia, give away (Text: Anonymous after Gaius Valerius Catullus) FRE GER SPA
  • Z. 467. Musing on cares
  • Z. 468. No, to what purpose should I speak? (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Z. 469. Scarce had the rising sun appear'd
  • Z. 470. See how the fading glories of the year
  • Z. 471. Since the pox or the plague
  • Z. 472. What hope for us remains now he is gone? (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 473. Young Thirsis' fate (Text: Nahum Tate)
  • Z. 481. A grasshopper and a fly (Text: Anonymous) HEB
  • Z. 485. Dulcibella, whene'er I sue for a kiss (Text: A Henley)
  • Z. 489. Go tell Amynta, gentle swain (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 492. Love and despair
  • Z. 496. In all our Cinthia's shining sphere (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • Z. 497. In some kind dream (Text: George Etheredge, Sir) HEB
  • Z. 499. I spy Celia, Celia eyes me
  • Z. 502. Lost is my quiet GER HEB
  • Z. 504. Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary (Text: Henry Parker) FRE
  • Z. 506. Oh! what a scene does entertain my sight (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 508. See where she sits (Weeping) (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Z. 512. Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair
  • Z. 521. When Myra sings, we seek th'enchanting sound (Text: George Granville, Lord Lansdowne) CAT
  • Z. 525. Why, my Daphne, why complaining?
  • Z. 541. Hark, Damon, hark! (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 542. Hark how the wild musicians sing (Text: Anonymous)
  • Z. 544. If ever I more riches did desire (Text: Abraham Cowley)
  • Z. 571 no. 1. I sigh'd, and I pin'd (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 571 no. 2. There's nothing so fatal as Woman (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 571 no. 3. Fled is my love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 571 no. 4. 'Tis death alone (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 571 no. 5. I'll mount to yon blue Coelum (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 571 no. 6. I'll sail upon the Dog-star (Text: Thomas d'Urfey after John Fletcher) ⊗ CAT CHI
  • Z. 571 no. 7. Jenny, 'gin you can love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 571 no. 8. If thou wilt give me back my love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 572 no. 11. Fair Iris and her swain (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 573 no. 1. I see, she flies me (Text: John Dryden) SPA
  • Z. 574 no. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom (Text: John Fletcher) FRE
  • Z. 578 no. 3. Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 578 no. 9. From rosy bow'rs (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
  • Z. 580 no. 1. In vain 'gainst Love, in vain I strove (Text: John Bancroft; William Mountfort)
  • Z. 581 no. 1. Retir'd from any mortal's sight (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
  • Z. 582 no. 1. How happy's the husband (Text: William Congreve)
  • Z. 583 no. 2. Music for a while (Text: John Dryden; Nathaniel Lee) CAT FRE
  • Z. 584. Celemene (Text: Thomas Southerne)
  • Z. 585 no. 1. Sweeter than roses (Text: Richard Norton) CAT FRE
  • Z. 587 no. 1. There's not a swain (Text: John Fletcher) CAT GER
  • Z. 595 no. 1. The danger is over (Text: Thomas Southerne)
  • Z. 595 no. 2. I sigh'd and owned my love
  • Z. 596 no. 1. Love, thou art best (Text: Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea)
  • Z. 598 no. 1. I look'd and saw within (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 600 no. 1. Nymphs and Shepherds (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Z. 600 no. 2. Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Z. 600 no. 3. To arms, Heroick Prince
  • Z. 601 no. 1. Though you make no return (Text: Thomas Southerne)
  • Z. 601 no. 2. No, resistance is but vain (Text: Anthony Henly) CAT
  • Z. 601 no. 3. Tell me no more (Text: William Congreve)
  • Z. 602 no. 1. As soon as the chaos (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 602 no. 2. How vile are the Sordid Intrigues (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
  • Z. 603 no. 1. See! where repenting Celia lyes (Text: John Crowne)
  • Z. 604. Thy Genius, lo (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
  • Z. 605 no. 1. Oh! how you protest (Text: Thomas Scott)
  • Z. 605 no. 2. A Scotch tune (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
  • Z. 605 no. 3. Man is for the woman made (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux; Thomas Scott) CAT FRE
  • Z. 606 no. 8. Hail to the myrtle shade (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
  • Z. 607 no. 11. As Amoret and Thyrsis lay (Text: William Congreve)
  • Z. 609 no. 10. Celia has a thousand charms (Text: Robert Gould) SPA
  • Z. 609 no. 11. Take not a woman's anger ill (Text: Robert Gould) CAT
  • Z. 610. Whilst I with grief (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 613 no. 2. Ah! how sweet it is to love (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 626 no. 37. Dido's Lament (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT FRE ITA SPA
  • Z. 627 no. ?. Let the Graces (Text: Thomas Betterton after John Fletcher) ⊗
  • Z. 627 no. 18. What shall I do (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗
  • Z. 627 no. 31b. Since from my dear Astrea's sight (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗ FRE
  • Z. 627 no. 33. Still I'm wishing (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗
  • Z. 627 no. 35. Tell me why (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) ⊗
  • Z. 628. For love ev'ry creature (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 628. Fairest Isle (Text: John Dryden) CAT CHI FRE GER SPA
  • Z. 628. Shepherd, shepherd leave decoying (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 628 no. 9. Come if you dare (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 628 no. 16. Shepherd, leave decoying (Text: John Dryden) CAT
  • Z. 628 no. 20. What power art thou (Text: John Dryden) FRE
  • Z. 628 no. 35a. You say 'tis Love (Text: John Dryden)
  • Z. 629 no. 7. Come all ye songsters (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • Z. 629 no. 13. Secresy's Song (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
  • Z. 629 no. 23. When I have often heard young maids complaining (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • Z. 629 no. 39bc. An Epithalamium (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE ITA
  • Z. 629 no. 40. The plaint (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
  • Z. 629 no. 47. Hark! how all things (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • Z. 629 no. 48. Hark! now the echoing Air (Text: Elkanah Settle)
  • Z. 630. Let us wander (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) GER
  • Z. 630. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) CAT FRE GER
  • Z. 630 no. 4c. Why should men quarrel (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
  • Z. 630 no. 15. Seek not to know (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
  • Z. 630 no. 19. They tell us that your mighty powers (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
  • Z. 631 no. 10. Dear Pretty Youth (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Z. 631 no. 14. Your Awful Voice (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Z. 631 no. 15. Halcyon days (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Z. 632 no. 3. Love in their little veins inspires (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
  • Z. 632 no. 11. Love quickly is pall'd (Text: Thomas Shadwell)

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