by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Hark! Did ye ever hear
Language: English
Hark! Did ye ever hear so sweet, so sweet a singing? They sing young love to waken, to waken, The nymphs unto the woods, their queen are bringing. There was a note well taken, Hark! O good! O most divine, O most divinely dittied: a queen and song most excellent, most excellently fitted. I never saw, I never saw a fairer, I never heard a rarer. Then sung the nymphs and shepherds of Diana: Long live fair Oriana!
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in The Triumphs of Oriana, first published 1601 [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 Thomas Hunt (fl. 1601), "Hark! Did ye ever hear", published 1601. [SSAATB chorus a cappella] [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-26
Line count: 18
Word count: 78