John Dowland - "My thoughts are wing'd with hopes"

The Deller Consort
Paul Elliott, tenor
Robert Spencer, luth

"My thoughts are wing'd with hopes, my hopes with love.
Mount Love unto the moon in clearest night
And say , as she doth in the heavens move,
In earth so wanes and waxeth my delight:
And whisper this but softly in her ears,
Hope oft doth hang the head, and trust shed tears.

And you my thoughts that some mistrust do carry,
If for mistrust my mistress do you blame,
Say though you alter, yet you do not vary,
And she doth change, and yet remain the same:
Distrust doth enter hearts, but not infect,
And love is sweetest season'd with suspect.

If she, for this, with clouds do mask her eyes,
And make the heavens dark with her disdain,
With windy sighs, disperse them in the skies,
Or with thy tears dissolve them into rain;
Thoughts, hopes, and love return to me no more
Till Cynthia shine as she hath done before"

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[thaliannavS]

Dowland ist einfach wundervoll!

[BachLoveNat]

amazing Dowland.....

thank you

[w8lz]

@Sarella1603 Das ist von George de la Tour und stellt die büßende Maria Magdalena dar.

[Sarella1603]

Oh mein Gott!! dieses Bild haengt bei mir ueberm Klavier! weist jemand wer es gemalt hat? und woher es kommt? ich frage mich das schon seit 10 Jahren!!!!

[mammamaya61]

mmmmm

[kkallebb]

Thanks for posting this fine song by Dowland. I was beginning to choke on a surfeit of "Flow My Tears." There is not a bad song in the entire surviving body of Dowland's work and I wish that more people would perform these less well known masterpieces.

[shrekinasuit]

Thanks!!

[ThePortugueseAtheist]

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