by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
I held Love's head while it did ache
Language: English
I held Love's head while it did ache; But so it chanced to be; The cruel pain did his forsake, And forwith came to me. Ay me! how shall my grief be stilled? Or where else shall we find One like to me, who must be killed For being too too kind?
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), "Upon Love" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Alan Bullard (b. 1947), "I held love's head " [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The head-ake", op. 50 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set I) no. 1 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "I held Love's head", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Two Short Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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Word count: 52