Awake, sweet love (John Dowland)
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General Information
Title: Awake, Sweet Love
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: No XIX from First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
External websites:
- Listen to a free recording of this piece from Coro Nostro, a mixed chamber choir based in Leicester, UK.
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Original text and translations
- Awake, sweet Love! thou art return'd:
- My heart, which long in absence mourn'd,
- Lives now in perfect joy,
- Only herself hath seemed fair,
- She only I could love;
- She only drove me to despair
- When she unkind did prove.
