Love Arms Himself in Celia's Eyes (Henry Purcell)
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CPDL #17171:
- Contributor: David Newman (added 2008-06-10). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 216 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - File Sizes: PDF: 216 KB
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General Information
Title: Love Arms Himself in Celia's Eyes
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: Matthew Prior
Number of voices: 1vv Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published:
Description: From the publication "Six Songs by Henry Purcell".
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Original text and translations
English text
- Love arms himself in Celia’s eyes
- Whene’er weak reason would rebel,
- And ev’ry time I dare be wise,
- Alas a deeper wound I feel.
- Repeated thoughts present the ill,
- Which seeing I must still endure,
- They tell me love has darts to kill
- And wisdom has no pow’r to cure.
- Then cruel reason give me rest.
- Quit in my heart thy feeble hold,
- Go try thy force in Celia’s breast,
- For that is disengag’d and cold.
- There all thy nicest arts employ,
- Confess thyself her beauty’s slave,
- And argue whilst she may destroy
- How great, how godlike ’tis to save
Lyrics: Matthew Prior - (1664-1721)
