If thou wouldst ease thine heart (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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Title: If thou wouldst ease thine heart
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Lovell Beddoes - (1803-1849)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1895
Description: Number 2 of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 3.
This poem of Thomas Lovell Beddoes is from a dirge from the play, "Death's Jest Book". In the play it is sung over coffin containing the dead body of Wolfram, the play's Hero-Knight, who had been killed by the play's villainous Duke.
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Original text and translations
English text
If thou wouldst east thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then sleep, dear! Sleep !
And not a sorrow hang
any tear on thine eyelashes;
Lie still and deep
sad soul, Until the seawave washes
The rim of the sun tomorrow
In Eastern sky.
But wouldst thou cure thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then die, dear, die.
'Tis deeper, sweeter,
Than on a rose bank to lie dreaming
With tranced eye;
And then alone, Amid the beaming
Of Love's stars, thou'lt greet her
in Eastern sky.
