by Thomas d'Urfey (1653 - 1723)
'Tis death alone
Language: English
'Tis death alone can give me Ease, for all the mighty Pain I've felt; in his cold Tomb my Heart shall ever freeze, since hers could never, never melt.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas d'Urfey (1653 - 1723) [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 Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "'Tis death alone", Z. 571 no. 4 (1688), from the incidental music to A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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