by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Upon a Summers day love went to swim
Language: English
Upon a Summers day love went to swim, and cast himselfe into a Sea of teares, the cloudes cald in their light, and Heaven waxt dim, and sighes did raise a tempest, causing feares. The naked boy could not so weld his armes, but that the waves were maisters of his might, and threatned him to worke farr greater harmes, if he devised not to scape by flight. Then for a bote his quiver stood in stead, his bow unbent, did serve him for a mast, whereby to saile his cloth of vaile hee spread, his shaftes for ores on either bord he cast, from shipwracke safe this wag got thus to shore, & sware, to bath in lovers tears no more.
W. Byrd sets stanza 1 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
W. Byrd sets stanza 2 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
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Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "Upon a Summer's day", published 1589, stanza 1 [SAT chorus a cappella], from the collection Songs of sundrie natures, no. 12. [text verified 1 time]
- by William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "Then for a boat", published 1589, stanza 2 [SAT chorus a cappella], from the collection Songs of sundrie natures, no. 13. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 122