Draw on, sweet night | Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Draw on, sweet night

Language: English

Our translations: DUT

Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares
  That do arise from painful melancholy;
My life so ill [through]¹ want of comfort fares,
  That unto thee I consecrate it wholly.

Sweet Night, draw on; my griefs, when they be told
  To shades and darkness, find some ease from paining;
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
  I then shall have best time for my complaining.

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• J. Rutter

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¹ Rutter: "from"

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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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Draw On, Sweet Night", op. 228 (1949) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Draw On, Sweet Night", op. 463 (1956) [sung text not yet checked]
by John Milford Rutter, CBE (b. 1945), "Draw on, sweet Night", from Birthday Madrigals, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by John Austin Sykes (1909 - 1962), "Draw on, sweet Night", 1946, first performed 1946 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Wilbye (1574 - 1638), "Draw on, sweet night", published 1609 [ vocal sextet ], from Second Set of Madrigals, confirmed with Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, pages 21-22. [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 67