Like desert woods (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-12)  CPDL #79493:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Like desert woods
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Edward Dyer , attr.
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 2], Opus 53, No. 2.

(THE SHEPHERD’S DUMP)

Original text and translations

English text

Like desert woods, with darksome shades obscurèd,
Where dreadful beasts, where hateful horror reigneth.
Such is my wounded heart, whom sorrow paineth.

The trees are fatal shafts, to death inurèd,
That cruel love within my heart maintaineth
To whet my grief, whenas my sorrow waneth.

The ghastly beasts, my thoughts in cares assurèd,
Which wage me war, whilst heart no succour gaineth
With false suspect and fear that still remaineth.

The horrors, burning sighs, by cares procurèd,
Which forth I send whilst weeping eye complaineth,
To cool the heat the helpless heart containeth.

But shafts, but cares, sighs, horrors unrecurèd
Were nought esteem’d if, for their pains awarded,
Your shepherd’s love might be by you regarded.