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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

My Love in her attire doth show her wit
Language: English 
My Love in her attire doth show her wit,
It doth so well become her:
For every season she hath dressings fit,
For winter, spring, and summer.

No beauty she doth miss
When all her robes are on:
But Beauty's self, Beauty's self she is
When all her robes are gone.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 17th century ) , "Davison's Poetical Rhapsody" [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 Frederic Ayres (1876 - 1926), "My Love in her Attire" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg (1909 - 2002), "My Love in her attire", from Of Love, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gladys Mary Cohen (1907 - 1996), as Guirne Creith, "Madrigal", 1929-30 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "My Love in her attire", 1973 [ STB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William Walton (1902 - 1983), "My Love in her attire", from Anon. in Love, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Joel Weiss , "My love in her attire", 1998 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jürg Wyttenbach (b. 1935), "Madrigal", 1964, from Two Nonsense Verses, an Epigram and a Madrigal, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Barbara Rufer

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

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