by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
A mourning‑song for the death of Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Language: English
Where shall a sorrow great enough be sought For this sad ruin which the Fates have wrought, Unless the Fates themselves should weep and wish Their curbless power had been controlled in this? For thy loss, worthiest Lord, no mourning eye Has flood enough; no muse nor elegy Enough expression to thy worth can lend; No, though thy Sidney had survived his friend. Dead, noble Brooke shall be to us a name Of grief and honour still, whose deathless fame Such Virtue purchased as makes us to be Unjust to Nature in lamenting thee; Wailing an old man’s fate as if in pride And heat of Youth he had untimely died.
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 160.
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Martin Peerson (or Pearson) (1571?3? - 1650?1?), "A mourning-song for the death of Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke", published 1630, from the collection Mottects, or grave chamber-music [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 14
Word count: 111