Breathe soft, ye winds

General information

Lyricist: Ambrose Philips, from the Sixth Pastoral (1709)

Notes on selected settings

• John Baptiste Calkin SATB (replaces ‘’vale’’ with ‘’grove’’)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• John Baptiste Calkin — Breathe soft, ye winds  English SATB
• Maria Hester Park — Breathe soft ye winds  English SSB, TTB, SSA
• William Paxton — Breathe soft ye winds  English TTB
• Samuel Webbe — Breathe soft ye winds  English SATB

Texts and Translations

English text

Breathe soft ye winds, ye waters gently flow;
Shield her ye trees, ye flowers around her grow.

Ye swains, I beg you, pass in silence by;
My love, in yonder vale, asleep doth lie.