Tuesday, October 28, 2008
"Flow my tears" by John Dowland
I love this song! It has the perfect heavy dose of Elizabethan melancholy. The performance by Valeria Mignaco, soprano & Alfonso Marin, lute is just wonderful.
"Flow my tears"
John Dowland
Flow my teares fall from your springs,
Exilde for ever: Let me morne
Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorne.
Downe vaine lights shine you no more,
No nights are dark enough for those
That in dispaire their last fortunes deplore,
Light doth but shame disclose.
Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pittie is fled,
And teares, and sighes, and grones
My wearie days of all joyes have deprived.
From the highest spire of contentment,
My fortune is throwne,
And feare, and griefe, and paine
For my deserts, are my hopes since hope is gone.
Hark you shadowes that in darnesse dwell,
Learn to contemne light,
Happy that in hell
Feele not the worlds despite.
RR
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Ronald,
I had to listen to this a couple of times, but, your right it does grow on you! and as a female, well that lady is very beautiful you have good taste my friend! and she can sing too!
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