Sic mea fata canendo solor,
ut nece proxima facit olor.
roseus effugit ore color,
blandus inest meo cordi dolor.
cura crescente,
labore vigente,
vigore labente,
miser morior,
hei morior, hei morior, hei morior !
dum quod amem cogor, sed non amor.
[ ... ]
Ubera cum animadverterem
optavi manus, ut involverem,
simplicibus mammis ut alluderem
sic cogitando sensi Venerem,
sedit in ore
rosa cum pudore,
pulsatus amore
quod os lamberem,
hei lamberem, hei lamberem, hei lamberem,
luxuriando per characterem.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Sic mea fata canendo solor"
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Line count: 30
Word count: 111
So by my singing am I comforted
Even as the swan that singing makes death sweet,
For from my face is gone the wholesome red.
And soft grief in my heart is sunken deep.
For sorrow still increasing,
And travail unreleasing,
And strength fast from me flying,
And I for sorrow dying,
Dying, dying, dying,
Since she I love cares nothing for my sighing.
...
Innocent breasts, when I have looked upon them,
Would that my hands were there,
How have I craved, and dreaming thus upon them,
Love wakened from despair.
Beauty on her lips flaming,
Rose red with her shaming,
And I with passion burning
And with my whole heart yearning
For her mouth, her mouth, her mouth,
That on her beauty I might slake my drouth.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Michael (Stockwin) Howard (1922 - 2002), "So by my singing am I comforted", 1951, rev. 1973, stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], from The Painted Rose, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965), "MS. of Benedictbeuern", appears in Medieval Latin Lyrics, first published 1929
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Sic mea fata canendo solor"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-03-24
Line count: 30
Word count: 185