by John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Ah! how sweet it is to love
Language: English
Ah! how sweet it is to love; how gay is young desire! And what pleasing pains we prove, When first we feel a lover's fire; Pains of love are sweeter far, Than all other pleasures are.
Text Authorship:
- by John Dryden (1631 - 1700), appears in Tyrannic Love [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 Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Ah! how sweet it is to love", Z. 613 no. 2, from the incidental music to Tyrannic Love -or- The Royal Martyr, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 36