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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Come again: sweet love doth now invite
 (Sung text for setting by J. Dowland)
 See base text
Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
Come again:
Sweet love doth now invite, 
Thy graces that refrain,
To do me due delight,
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,
With thee again in sweetest sympathy.

Come again
That I may cease to mourn,
Through thy unkind disdain:
For now left and forlorn,
I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die,
In deadly pain and endless misery.

 ... 

Gentle Love,
Draw forth thy wounding dart,
Thou canst not pierce her heart,
For I that to approve,
By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts,
Did tempt, while she for mighty triumph laughs.

Composition:

    Set to music by John Dowland (1562 - 1626), "Come again: sweet love doth now invite", stanzas 1-2,6

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 17th century )

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

  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Antonio Zencovich) , "Ritorna: un tenero amore ora invoca…", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Gerald Kirsch

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 36
Word count: 209

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