by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Burn, or drown me, choose ye whether
Language: English
Burn, or drown me, choose ye whether, So I may but die together ; Thus to slay me by degrees Is the height of cruelties. What needs twenty stabs, when one Strikes me dead as any stone ? O show mercy then, and be Kind at once to murder me.
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Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol II, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 67.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "A Song" [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 Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Burne or drowne me", op. 82 (Nine Sets of Four Songs Each, Set I) no. 2 (1930) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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