by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Hold out my heart
Language: English
Hold out my heart, with joy's delights accloyed, O hold thou out my heart, and show it, That all the world may know it, What sweet content thou lately hast enjoyed; She that, "Come dear", would say, Then laugh and run away, And if I stayed her, thus would she then cry, "Nay, fie for shame, fie", My true love true not regarding; hath giv'n my love now at length his full rewarding. So that, unless I may tell the joys that overfill me, My joys kept in, I know in time will kill me.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Thomas Morley (1557 - 1602), "Hold out my heart", published 1593 [ vocal trio a cappella ], from Canzonets, or Little Short Songs to Three Voices, no. 5, London: Thomas Este [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2024-05-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 95