by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Sleep, wayward thoughts
Language: English
Sleep, wayward thoughts, and rest you with my love: Let not my Love be with my love diseas'd. Touch not, proud hands, lest you her anger move, But pine you with my longings long displeas'd. Thus, while she sleeps, I sorrow for her sake: So sleeps my Love, and yet my love doth wake. My love doth rage, and yet my Love doth rest: Fear in my love, and yet my Love secure: Peace in my Love, and yet my love oppress'd: Impatient, yet of perfect temp'rature. Sleep, dainty Love, while I sigh for thy sake: So sleeps my Love, and yet my love doth wake.
Text 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 John Dowland (1562 - 1626), "Sleep, wayward thoughts" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Sleep, Wayward Thoughts", op. 375 (1952) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 106