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Come again: Sweet love doth now invite, Thy graces that refrain, To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest sympathy. Come again That I may cease to mourn, Through thy unkind disdain: For now left and forlorn, I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die, In deadly pain and endless misery. All the day That sun that lends me shine By frowns doth cause me pine And feeds me with delay: Her smiles, my springs that make my joys to grow, Her frowns, the winters of my woe. All the night My sleep is full of dreams, My eyes are full of streams, My heart takes no delight To see the fruits and joys that some do find, And mark the storms to me assigned, Out, alas, My faith is ever true, Yet will she never rue, Nor yield me any grace; Her eyes of fire, her heart of flint is made, Whom tears nor truth may once invade. Gentle Love, Draw forth thy wounding dart, Thou canst not pierce her heart, For I that to approve, By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts, Did tempt, while she for [mighty]1 triumph laughs.
J. Dowland sets stanzas 1-2, 6
1 added by Dowland
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 17th century )  [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 John Dowland (1562 - 1626), "Come again: sweet love doth now invite", stanzas 1-2,6. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Antonio Zencovich) , title 1: "Ritorna: un tenero amore ora invoca…", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , title 1: "Kehre zurück: Süße Liebe bittet nun deine Gunst", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Gerald Kirsch
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 36
Word count: 209
Kehre zurück: Süße Liebe bittet nun deine Gunst, die du mir vorenthältst, mich gebührend zu beglücken, so dass wir uns in süßem Einvernehmen erneut sehen, hören, berühren, küssen und gemeinsam sterben. Kehre zurück, damit ich nicht mehr trauern muss, weil du mich grausam verachtest: Denn jetzt sitze ich allein und verzweifelt, seufze, weine, verliere die Besinnung und sterbe in tödlichem Schmerz und unendlichem Elend.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2015-10-13
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Word count: 64