by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Love not me for comely grace
Language: English
Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart: For these may fail or turn to ill, So thou and I shall sever: Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye, And love me still but know not why; So hast thou the same reason still To doat upon me ever!
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text checked 1 time 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 Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "Love me not for comely grace" [ voice and guitar or SATB chorus ], from Three madrigals, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "Love me not for comely grace", 1972-3 [ high voice and piano ], from A Miscellany of Love Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael (Dewar) Head (1900 - 1976), "Love not me for comely grace", 1921, published 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Love me not for comely grace " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Love not me", 1865 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Love not me for comely grace", op. 380 (1953) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Love not me for comely grace", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joel Weiss , "Love not me", 1998 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Wilbye (1574 - 1638), "Love me not for comely grace", published 1609 [ vocal quartet ], from Second Set of Madrigals, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]
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