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Henry Purcell

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Works in catalog: 212

LIEDER · 212

I sigh'd, and I pin'd

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There's nothing so fatal as Woman

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Fled is my love

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'Tis death alone

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

I'll mount to yon blue Coelum

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

Jenny, 'gin you can love

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

If thou wilt give me back my love

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A grasshopper and a fly

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A Scotch tune

A thousand sev'ral ways I tried

Ah! cruel nymph

Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love

Amidst the shades

Amintas, to my grief I see

Amintor, heedless of his flocks

As Amoret and Thyrsis lay

Ask me to love no more

I see, she flies me

aureng-zebe-or-the-great-mogul

Bacchus is a pow'r divine

Be welcome then, great Sir

Beneath a dark and melancholy grove

Beware, poor shepherds

Birthday Ode for Queen Mary

Who can from joy refrain, this gay

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A Prince of glorious race descended

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The Father brave as e’er was Dane

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The Graces in his Mother shine

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Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum

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If now he burns with noble flame

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O lead me to some peaceful gloom

bonduca-or-the-british-heroine

By beauteous softness

Catch

Cease, anxious world

Cease, o my sad Soul

Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her

Come, ye Sons of Art

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Strike the viol

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The Honour of a Jubilee

come-ye-sons-of-art

Bid the Virtues

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These are the sacred charms

come-ye-sons-of-art

See Nature, rejoicing

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Corinna is divinely fair

Cupid, the slyest rogue alive

Dido's Lament

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From rosy bow'rs

Draw near, you lovers

Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary

Fair Iris and her swain

Farewell all joys

Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands

Fly swift, ye hours

Go tell Amynta, gentle swain

Great God, and just (A penitential hymn)

Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! fill ev'ry Heart!

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Hark! hark! each Tree its silence breaks

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Tis Nature's voice

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Soul of the World

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Thou tun'st this world

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EN

With that sublime celestial lay

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Wondrous machine!

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The airy violin

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In vain the am'rous flute

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The fife and all the harmony of war

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Let these among themselves contest

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Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail to thee

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Hark, Damon, hark!

Hark how the wild musicians sing

My op'ning eyes are purg'd

The night is come

He himself courts his own ruin

Hear my prayer, O Lord

EN

In vain 'gainst Love, in vain I strove

henry-the-second-king-of-england

High on a throne of glitt'ring ore

How delightful's the life of an innocent swain

How have I stray'd, my God?

How I sigh

How long, great God

I came, I saw, and was undone

I love and I must

I loved fair Celia

I resolve against cringing and whining

I saw that you were grown so high

If ever I more riches did desire

If grief has any pow'r to kill

If pray'rs and tears

In all our Cinthia's shining sphere

In Cloris all soft charms agree

In some kind dream

In the midst of life we are in death

In vain we dissemble

For love ev'ry creature

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EN

Come if you dare

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What power art thou

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You say 'tis Love

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Let each gallant heart

Let formal lovers still pursue

Let us, kind Lesbia, give away

Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry?

Love and despair

Love arms himself in Celia's eyes

Love is now become a trade

Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance

Love, thou can'st hear

How happy's the husband

love-triumphant

Lovely Albina's come ashore

Man that is born of a woman

More love or more disdain I crave

Musing on cares

My heart, whenever you appear

My song shall be alway

No, to what purpose should I speak?

O! fair Cedaria

That I may see

O God, thou art my God

O sing unto the Lord

Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Oh! what a scene does entertain my sight

Olinda in the shades unseen

One, two, three

Pastora's beauties when unblown

Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr. John Playford

Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it

Phillis, talk no more of passion

Let the Graces

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What shall I do

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Since from my dear Astrea's sight

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Still I'm wishing

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Tell me why

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Rashly I swore I would disown

Remember not, Lord, our offences

Sawney is a bonny lad

Scarce had the rising sun appear'd

See how the fading glories of the year

See where she sits (Weeping)

She loves and she confesses, too

She that would gain a faithful lover

She, who my poor heart possesses

Shepherd, shepherd leave decoying

Since one poor view has drawn my heart

Since the pox or the plague

Sleep, Adam, sleep

Spite of the godhead

Stript of their green our Groves appear

Sweet, be no longer sad

Sweetness of nature

Sylvia, now your scorn give over

Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair

The earth trembled

Come all ye songsters

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Secresy's Song

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When I have often heard young maids complaining

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The plaint

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Hark! how all things

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The danger is over

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I sigh'd and owned my love

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Love, thou art best

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Retir'd from any mortal's sight

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I look'd and saw within

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Let us wander

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Why should men quarrel

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Seek not to know

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They tell us that your mighty powers

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Nymphs and Shepherds

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Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near

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To arms, Heroick Prince

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Though you make no return

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Tell me no more

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As soon as the chaos

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How vile are the Sordid Intrigues

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See! where repenting Celia lyes

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Thy Genius, lo

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The message

Oh! how you protest

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The Owl Is Abroad

Celia has a thousand charms

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Dear Pretty Youth

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Your Awful Voice

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Halcyon days

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Hail to the myrtle shade

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They say you're angry

This poet sings the Trojan wars

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

Through mournful shades and solitary groves

Love in their little veins inspires

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Love quickly is pall'd

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Ah! how sweet it is to love

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Under this stone

Urge me no more

Behold th' indulgent Prince is come

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Not with an Helmet or a glitt'ring Spear

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Welcome as soft refreshing show'rs

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From those serene and rapturous joys

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Nor does the Sun more comfort bring

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With trumpets and shouts we receive the World's Wonder

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Here the deities approve

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What a sad fate is mine

What hope for us remains now he is gone?

When first Amintas sued for a kiss

When first my shepherdess and I

When her languishing eyes said "Love!"

When my Aemelia smiles

When Strephon found his passion vain

While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep

Whilst Cynthia sung

Whilst I with grief

Who but a slave can well express

Who can behold Florella's charms

Why, my Daphne, why complaining?

With sick and famish'd eyes

Ye happy swains

Ye tuneful Muses

Young Thirsis' fate

I sigh'd, and I pin'd

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

There's nothing so fatal as Woman

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

Fled is my love

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'Tis death alone

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

I'll mount to yon blue Coelum

a-fool-s-preferment-or-the-three-dukes-of-dunstable

Jenny, 'gin you can love

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If thou wilt give me back my love

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A grasshopper and a fly

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