by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Never weather‑beaten sail
Language: English
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more, Than my wearied sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast: O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest. Ever blooming are the joys of Heaven's high Paradise. Cold age deafs not there our ears nor vapour dims our eyes: Glory there the sun outshines whose beams the blessed only see: O come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my sprite to thee!
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [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 Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge (1924 - 1980), "Never weather-beaten sail", published 1950, rev. 1968, from Four XVIIth century poems, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "Never weather-beaten sail", published c1613, from Two Bookes of Ayres - The First Booke, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "Never weather-beaten sail", op. 25, Heft 2 no. 11 (1908) [ bass and orchestra or piano ], from The Long Journey, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "Never weather‑beaten sail", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Twenty-one songs, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Never weather-beaten sail", from Songs of Farewell, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Never weather-beaten sail" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Shephard (b. 1949), "Never weather-beaten sail" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "Never weather-beaten sail", published 1935 [ satb chorus and organ ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 82