O Love, they wrong thee much (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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  • CPDL #16321:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif Sibelius.png (Sibelius 4)
Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-03-12).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 70 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: MIDI: 11 KB, Sib4: 51 KB. Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 2001-06-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: MIDI: 11 kb, Finale 2000: 48 kb. Finale file is zipped.

General Information

Title: O Love, they wrong thee much
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
{Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1898

Description: Eight Four-part Songs (1898) No. 2

  1. Phillis
  2. O Love, they wrong thee much
  3. At her fair hands
  4. Home of my heart
  5. You gentle nymphs
  6. Come pretty wag
  7. Ye thrilled me once
  8. Better music ne'er was known

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

O Love, O Love, they wrong thee much
That say thy sweet is bitter, bitter.
When thy rich fruit is such,
As nothing can be sweeter,
Sweeter, Fair house of joy and bliss;
Where truest pleasure is, I do adore,
I do adore, I do adore thee, I do adore thee;
I know thee what thou art,
I serve thee with my heart,
And fall before thee, and fall before thee
and fall before thee; I know thee,
I serve thee, and fall before thee.
I know thee, I serve thee, and fall before thee,
and fall before thee.