Cease to blame my melancholy (John Stafford Smith)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Web Page
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2021-03-22)  CPDL #63619: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 113 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: Cease to blame my melancholy
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: Sir John Henry Moore^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1781
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Cease to blame my melancholy,
Though with sighs and folded arms
I muse with silence on her charms;
Cease to blame - I know 'tis folly.

Yet these mournful thoughts possessing,
Such delights I find in grief,
That, could heaven afford relief,
My fond heart would scorn the blessing.