by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Tom o' Bedlam See base text
Language: English
... The moon's my constant mistresse, And the lovely owl's my marrowe; The flaming Drake and the night-crowe make me music to my sorrowe. ... I know more than Apollo, for oft when he lies sleeping I behold the stars at mortal wars and the rounded welkin weeping; The moone embraces her shepheard, And the Queen of love her warryor. While the first does horn the stars of the morn, And the next the heavenly Farrier. ... With an heart of furious fancies, whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, to the wilderness I wander. With a knight of ghostes and shadows I summoned am to tourney. Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end. Methinks it is no journey. ...
Composition:
- Set to music by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Tom o' Bedlam", 1934, stanzas 8,10-11,16-17
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 84
Word count: 430