by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Grief of my best love's absenting
Language: English
Grief, grief of my best love's absenting: Now, oh, now wilt thou assail me? I had rather life should fail me Then endure thy slow tormenting. Life our griefs and us do sever Once for ever Absence grief have no relenting. Well, well, be it foul absence spites me, So fit of it cannot send her, As my heart should not attend her. Oh, how this thought's thought delights me Absence, do thy worst and spare not — Know I care not; When thou wrongst me, my thoughts right me. Oh, oh, but such thoughts prove illusions, Shadows of a substance banished, Dreams of pleasure too soon vanished, Reasons maimed of their conclusions, Then since thoughts and all deceive me, O life, leave me! End of life ends love's confusions.
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 (fl. 1597-1615), "Grief of my best love's absenting" [counter-tenor, lute] [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ross Klatte
This text was added to the website: 2014-07-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 130