by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Like two proud armies marching in the field
Language: English
Like two proud armies marching in the field, -- Joining a thund’ring fight, each scorns to yield, -- So in my heart your beauty and my reason: One claims the crown, the other says ’tis treason. But oh! your beauty shineth as the sun; And dazzled reason yields as quite undone.
Confirmed with Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 68.
Text Authorship:
- 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 Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623), "Like two proud armies marching in the field", published 1600 [vocal sextet], from Madrigals of Six Parts, madrigal [ sung text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 6
Word count: 49