How great delight (Thomas Tomkins)
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- Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2009-08-04). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 34 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: How great delight
Composer: Thomas Tomkins
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1622 in Songs of 3-6 parts, no. 5
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Original text and translations
English text
How great delight from those sweet lips I taste
Whether I hear them speak, or feel them kiss!
Only this want I have, that being graced
With one of them, the other straight I miss.
Love, since thou canst do wonders, heap my blisses
And grant her kissing words, or speaking kisses.