by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Follow your saint
Language: English
Follow your saint follow with accents sweet, Haste you sad noates fall at her flying feete, There wrapt in cloud of sorrow pitie move, And tell the ravisher of my soule, I perish for her love. But if she scorns my never ceasing paine, Then burst with sighing in her sight, and nere returne againe. All that I soong still to her praise did tend, Still she was first, still she my sings did end, Yet she my love, and Musicke both does flie, The Musicke that her Eccho is, and bauties simpathies; Then let my Noates pursue her scornfull flight, It shall suffice, that thex were breath'd and dyed for her delight.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [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 Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "Follow your saint", published 1601, from A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "Follow your saint", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Twenty-one songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Follow your saint" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896 - 1989), "Follow your saint", from Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-05-02
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