She never told her love (Joseph Haydn)

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• (Posted 2021-03-22)  CPDL #63636: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 196 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: She never told her love
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Lyricist: William Shakespeare

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo high
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1795
Description: Canzonet IV in Haydn's second set of Original Canzonettas, London. A setting of words from Twelfth Night.

Original text and translations

English text

She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek.
She sat, like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.