Jacquelyn Weitz and Tatiana Senderowicz: If My Complaints Could Passions Move by John Dowland

Live Performance. Lyrics:

If my complaints could passions move
Or make love see wherein I suffer wrong
My passions were enough to prove
That my despairs had governed me too long.

Oh love, I live and die in thee
Thy grief in my deep sighs still speaks
Thy wounds do freshly bleed in me
My heart for thy unkindness breaks

Yet, thou dost hope when I despair
And when I hope thou mak'st me hope in vain
Thou say'st thou canst my harms repair,
Yet for redress thou let'sd t me still complain.

Can love be rich, and yet I want?
Is love my judge, and yet am I condemned?
Thou plenty hast, yet me dost scant
Thou mad'st a god, and yet thy pow'r contemned.

That I do live, it is thy pow'r.
That I desire, it is thy worth
If love doth make men's lives too sour
Let me not love, nor live henceforth

Die shall my hopes, but not my faith
That you that of my fall may hearers be,
May here despair which truly saith:
I was more true to love than love to me.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• John Dowland
• guitar
• lute song
• early music
• jacquelyn jackie weitz
• sings
• singing

[MrCapacitors]

Oh what a voice and how well you USE it.

[jackson8383]

@MrCapacitors Thank you!! :-)

[jamescounter]

Amazing