Religion

Weep you no more, sad fountains

by Anonymous (Elizabethan songs) c. 1588–1630

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)

Religion

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste!
But my sun's heavenly eyes,
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at ev'n he sets?
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes!
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleeping,
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

✦ ✦ ✦

From John Rowland's Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs, 1603.

MLA

Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Weep you no more, sad fountains.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/164/.

Chicago

Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Weep you no more, sad fountains.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/164/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Anonymous (Elizabethan songs)