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'''Lyrics from CPDL 3277:'''
<poem>
 
Lyrics from CPDL 3277:
:I press her hand gently,  
I press her hand gently, look languishing down,  
:look languishing down,  
and by passionate silence I make my love known.
:and by passionate silence  
But oh! How I'm blest when so kind she does prove,  
:I make my love known.
by some willing mistake to discover her love.
 
When in striving to hide, she reveals her flame,
 
and in our eyes tell each other what neither dares name.
:But oh! How I'm blest  
:when so kind she does prove,  
:by some willing mistake  
:to discover her love.
 
 
:When in striving to hide,
:she reveals her flame,
:and in our eyes tell each other
:what neither dares name.
 
'''Lyrics from CPDL 3020:'''
 
:If love's a sweet passion why does it torment?
:If a bitter, oh tell me, whence comes my content?
:Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
:or grieve at my fate, when I know it's in vain?
:Yet so pleasing the pain is so soft as the dart,
:That at once it both wounds me and tickles my heart.
 


Lyrics from CPDL 3020:
If love's a sweet passion why does it torment?
If a bitter, oh tell me, whence comes my content?
Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
or grieve at my fate, when I know it's in vain?
Yet so pleasing the pain is so soft as the dart,
That at once it both wounds me and tickles my heart.
</poem>


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  • CPDL #3277: Network.png
Editor: Udo Baake (submitted 2002-02-20).   Score information:    Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: in A4 page format, different lyrics from ID # 3020
  • CPDL #3020: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif
Editor: Alfred M. Drenth (submitted 2001-09-28).   Score information: 104 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: in A4 page format, requires Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher

General Information

Title: If Love's a Sweet Passion
Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Opera

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:


Description:


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Original text and translations

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Lyrics from CPDL 3277:
I press her hand gently, look languishing down,
and by passionate silence I make my love known.
But oh! How I'm blest when so kind she does prove,
by some willing mistake to discover her love.
When in striving to hide, she reveals her flame,
and in our eyes tell each other what neither dares name.

Lyrics from CPDL 3020:
If love's a sweet passion why does it torment?
If a bitter, oh tell me, whence comes my content?
Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
or grieve at my fate, when I know it's in vain?
Yet so pleasing the pain is so soft as the dart,
That at once it both wounds me and tickles my heart.