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'''Title:''' ''To Althea from prison''<br> | '''Title:''' ''To Althea from prison''<br> | ||
{{Composer|Charles Hubert Hastings Parry}} | |||
{{Lyricist|Richard Lovelace}} - (1618-1658) | |||
'''Number of voices:''' 1v '''Voicing:''' Solo Tenor<br> | '''Number of voices:''' 1v '''Voicing:''' Solo Tenor<br> |
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CPDL #16476: Sibelius4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-3-30). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 66 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 66 KB, MIDI:10 KB, Sib4: 42 KB.
General Information
Title: To Althea from prison
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Richard Lovelace - (1618-1658)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1895
Description: Number 3 of Parry's "English Lyrics" - Set 3, Lyrics by Richard Lovelace - (1618-1658) "Song" from Lucasta, published 1649.
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Original text and translations
English text
- When Love with unconfined wings
- Hovers within my gates;
- And my divine Althea brings
- To whisper at the grates:
- When I lie tangled in her hair,
- Or fettered to her eye;
- The gods, that wanton in the air,
- Know no such liberty.
- When flowing cups run swiftly round
- With no allaying Thames,
- Our careless heads with roses crowned,
- Our hearts with loyal flames;
- When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
- And healths and draughts go free,
- Fishes, that tipple in the deep,
- Know no such liberty.
- [ When (like committed linnets) I
- With shriller throat shall sing
- The sweetness, mercy, majesty,
- And glories of my king;
- When I shall voice aloud how good
- He is, how great should be,
- Enlarged winds, that curl the flood,
- Know no such liberty.]
- Stone walls do not a prison make,
- Nor iron bars a cage;
- Minds innocent and quiet take
- That for an hermitage;
- If I have freedom in my love,
- And in my soul am free,
- Angels alone that soar above,
- Enjoy such liberty.
- Note: [ ... ] text in verse omitted in song.
- Lyrics: Richard Lovelace - (1618-1658)
- "Song" from Lucasta, published 1649.