Lucinda once my soul possessed (Thomas Arne)

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• (Posted 2025-10-09)  CPDL #87092: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-10-09).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 144 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 2025-10-09)  CPDL #87091: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-10-09).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 83 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: Lucinda once my soul possessed
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo, violin

First published: 1760
Description: Probably written for performance at Vauxhall.

Original text and translations

English text

Lucinda once my soul possessed,
And triumph'd o'er my heart;
Eachhour was tranquil, calm and blest,
'Twas more than death to part.
No jealous fears intruding on me,
No anxious doubts annoy
Our thoughts; our hopes were all the same,
All transport love and joy.

But soon the blissful scene was o'er;
Full soon she fickle proved;
And left her shepherd to deplore
The loss of her he loved.
Yet think not that for thee I grieve,
Or pine at thy disdain;
There needs no comfort to relieve,
No balm to heal my pain.

For when I think how false thou art,
I thank the gods above,
Who gave me pow'r to wean my heart
From my inconstant love.
But this, Lucinda, this expect:
Rewarded thou shalt be;
Thou too, false maid, shall meet neglect,
While I am blest and free.