Love
Woeful Heart, with grief oppressed!
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Woeful Heart, with grief oppressed!
Since my fortunes most distressed
From my joys hath me removed,
Follow those sweet eyes adored!
Those sweet eyes wherein are stored
All my pleasures best beloved.
Fly my breast—leave me forsaken—
Wherein Grief his seat hath taken,
All his arrows through me darting!
Thou mayst live by her sunshining:
I shall suffer no more pining
By thy loss than by her parting.
Codex Note
From John Dowland's Second Book of Songs or Airs, 1600.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Woeful Heart, with grief oppressed!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/189/.
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