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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUTE SONG SET BY ROBERT JONES, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone" Last Line: "faith, let her go, or come, or tarry" Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Farewell; Parting | |||
Farewell, dear Love! since thou wilt needs be gone: Mine eyes do show my life is almost done. Nay, I never will die So long as I can spy; There be many moe Though that she do go. There be many moe, I fear not. Why then, let her go, I care not. Farewell, farewell! since this I find is true, I will not spend more time in wooing you. But I will seek elsewhere If I may find her there. Shall I bid her go? What and if I do? Shall I bid her go, and spare not? Oh, no, no, no, no, I dare not. Ten thousand times farewell! Yet stay awhile, Sweet, kiss me once; sweet kisses time beguile. I have no power to move: How now, am I in love? Wilt thou needs be gone? Go then, all is one. Wilt thou needs be gone? Oh, hie thee! Nay; stay, and do no more deny me. Once more farewell! I see "loth to depart' Bids oft adieu to her that holds my heart. But, seeing I must lose Thy love which I did choose. Go thy ways for me, Since it may not be. Go thy ways for me. But whither? Go, oh, but where I may come thither. What shall I do? My love is now departed. She is as fair as she is cruel-hearted: She would not be entreated With prayers oft repeated. If she come no more, Shall I die therefore? If she come no more, what care I? Faith, let her go, or come, or tarry! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. by JUNE JORDAN WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA by JAMES JOYCE SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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