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- Editor: David Newman (submitted 2008-08-21). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 125 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - Edition in G minor
- CPDL #13118: NoteWorthy Composer
- Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2006-11-17). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 35 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- CPDL #11334: LilyPond
- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2006-03-25). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 384 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: This edition contains the choir parts and a transcription of the lute part from the original tabulature. Lute part also playable on a classical guitar esp. with Capodastro on 3.d fret.
- Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2003-08-18). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 49 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: a cappella
- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2000-06-21). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 450 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: in partbook format, a cappella.
General Information
Title: If My Complaints Could Passions move
Composer: John Dowland
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Lute song
Language: English
Instruments: Lute
Published: 1597
Description: No IV from First Booke of Songs or Ayres (1597)
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Original text and translations
English text
If my complaints could passions move,
Or make Love see wherein I suffer wrong:
My passions were enough to prove,
That my despairs had govern'd me too long.
O 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's thou canst my harms repair,
Yet for redress, thou let'st me still complain.
Can Love be rich, and yet I want?
Is Love my judge, and yet am I condemn'd?
Thou plenty hast, yet me dost scant:
Thou made a god, and yet thy pow'r contemn'd.
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.