by Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616) and by John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
Care‑charming sleep
Language: English
Care-charming sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to death, sweetly thyself dispose on this afflicted night fall like a cloud in gentle show'rs; give nothing to it loud or painful to his slumber; easy, sweet And as a purling stream, thou son of night. Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain. Into thyself gently, O gently, o gently slide And kiss him into slumbers Like a bride.
Authorship:
- by Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by John Fletcher (1579 - 1625) [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 Robert Johnson (c1583 - 1633), "Care-charming sleep" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Care-Charming Sleep", op. 483 (1956) [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Sanna Mansikkaniemi
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 19
Word count: 76