by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
And is it night
Language: English
And is it night ? Are they thine eyes that shine ? Are we alone and here ? and here and here alone May I come near ? May I, may I but touch thy shrine ? Is jealousy asleep or is he gone ? O gods, no more silence my lips with thine, Lips, kisses, joys, hap, blessings most divine. Oh, come, my dear, our griefs are turned to night. And night to joys; Night blinds pale Envy's eyes; Silence and sleep prepare us our delight, Oh, cease we then our woes, our griefs, our cries. Oh, vanish words! words do but passions move. O dearest life, joys sweet, O sweetest love !
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 Robert Jones (flourished 1597-1615), "And is it night" [ voice, lute, viol ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "And Is It Night?", op. 275 (1950) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Ross Klatte
This text was added to the website: 2014-07-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 114