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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Make me a willow cabin
 (Sung text for setting by D. Amram)
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Language: English 
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me!

Composition:

    Set to music by David Werner Amram (b. 1930), "Make me a willow cabin", published 1972 [ tenor and piano or orchestra ], from Five Shakespeare Songs, no. 3, New York, Peters

Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act I, Scene 5

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 67

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