by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Pour forth, mine eyes, the fountains of...
Language: English
Pour forth, mine eyes, the fountains of your tears; Break, heart, and die, for now no hope appears; Hope, upon which before my thoughts were fed, Hath left me quite forlorn and from me fled. Yet, see, she smiles! O see, some hope appears! Hold, heart, and live; mine eyes, cease off your tears.
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Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. by A. H. Bullen, London, John C. Nimmo, 1887, page 97.Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [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 Francis Pilkington (d. 1638), "Pour forth, mine eyes, the fountains of your tears", published 1613, from First Set of Madrigals [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Pour Forth, Mine Eyes", op. 198 (1948) [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs of Sadness, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-25
Line count: 6
Word count: 54