Sweet Stay A While7/26/2018 Sweet stay a while, why will you rise?
The light you see comes from your eyes: The day breaks not, it is my heart, To think that you and I must part. O stay, or else my joys must die, And perish in their infancy. Dear let me die in this fair breast, Far sweeter then the phoenix' next. Love raise desire by his sweet charms Within this circle of thine arms: And let thy blissful kisses cherish Mine infant joys, that else must perish. Comments are closed.
DowlandThese enduring poems demonstrate the extreme melancholic affection, popular in the time of Dowland at courts of powerful monarchs such as Queen Elizabeth I of England over 400 years ago. These pieces come alive in musical performance and emote an ironic humor by revealing both vague and blatant subtexts. Songs
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