by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
What can we poor females do?
Language: English
What can we poor females do When pressing, teasing lovers sue? What can we poor females do? Fate affords no other way, But denying or complying, And relenting, or consenting, Does alike our hopes betray.
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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "What can we poor females do?", 1961 [ duet and piano ], a realization of the Purcell song. Confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "What can we poor females do?", Z. 429 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Què podem fer nosaltres, pobres dones?", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , "Was können wir armen Frauen tun", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Ehud Shapiro) , "מה אנו נשים מסכנות יכולות לעשות", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 35