by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
O stay, sweet love; see here the place...
Language: English
O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting; These gentle flowers smile sweetly to invite us, And chirping birds are hitherward resorting, Warbling sweet notes only to delight us: Then stay, dear love, for, tho' thou run from me, Run ne'er so fast, yet I will follow thee. I thought, my love, that I should overtake you; Sweet heart, sit down under this shadow'd tree, And I will promise never to forsake you, So you will grant to me a lover's fee. Whereat she smiled, and kindly to me said - I never meant to live and die a maid.
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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 Farmer (c1570 - c1601?5), "O stay, sweet love", published 1599 [chorus], from the collection First Set of English Madrigals [text verified 1 time]
- by William Walton (1902 - 1983), "Stay, sweet love", from Anon. in Love, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 102