by Nicholas Breton (1542 - 1626)
Lovely kind, and kindly loving
Language: English
Lovely kind, and kindly loving, Such a mind were worth the moving; Truly fair, and fairly true - Where are all these but in you? Wisely kind, and kindly wise; Blessed life, where such love lies! Wise, and kind, and fair, and true - Lovely live all these in you. Sweetly dear, and dearly sweet, Blessed where these blessings meet, Sweet, fair, wise, kind, blessed, true - Blessed be all these in you!
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Text Authorship:
- by Nicholas Breton (1542 - 1626), "An odd conceit", appears in Melancholic Humours, first published 1600 [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 Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "An odd conceit", 1986, published 1988 [ high voice and piano ], from Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry, no. 3, Seesaw Music Corp./Subito [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Lovely kind, and kindly loving", op. 16 no. 4 (1903), published 1923 [ soprano and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Lovely Kind", op. 193 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Fair and True", op. 231 (1949) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "Lovely kind & kindly loving", op. 55 (Three Songs) no. 1, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Two Old English Lyrics, no. 1, London: Elkin [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Fair and true", 1926, published 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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