Hither, sweet Ulysses, haste (Thomas Arne)
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- (Posted 2023-11-07) CPDL #77055:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 357 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original instrumental accompaniment.
- (Posted 2023-11-07) CPDL #77054:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 200 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes a keyboard reduction of the original instrumental accompaniment.
General Information
Title: Hither, sweet Ulysses, haste
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: Edward Moore (adapted)create page
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo,Violins
First published: 1748
Description: Probably written for performance at Vauxhall.
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Original text and translations
English text
Hither, sweet Ulysses, haste,
Manly beauty, come and taste
What the pow'r of bliss unfold;
Joys too mighty to be told;
Taste what ecstasies they give,
Dying raptures taste, and live.
Lavish nature sheds her store,
Thrilling joys unfelt before,
Sweetly languishing desires,
Fierce delights and am'rous fires;
Sweetest, doth thou yet delay?
Manly beauty, come away!
List not, when the froward chide,
Sons of pedantry and pride;
Snarlers, to whose feeble sense
April sunshine is offence;
Envious age alone decries
Pleasures which from love arise.
Come, in pleasure's balmy bowl
Slake the thirstings of thy soul,
Till thy raptur'd pow'rs are faint,
Joys too exquisite to paint:
Sweetest, dost thou yet delay?
Manly beauty, come away.