The patient lover (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-04-12)  CPDL #80190:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 513 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The patient lover
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: May Byron
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Three Part-Songs, Op. 111, No. 3.

Original text and translations

English text

So long as I have served
     And met with little favour,
My heart hath never swerved,
     My faith it will not waver.
          Yet she flouteth me,
          She scouteth me,
          She doubteth me also,
And to all my piteous plea,
     One answer giveth she:
          No, no, no, no,no!
          Hey nonney, nonney, no!

Now fain would I fore-go
     And fain would I forget her,
But that, forsooth, I know
     The world doth hold no better.
          In the chalices
          Of palaces
          Doth sweeter fount e’er flow
Than the lovely light that lies
     In her dewy-fringed eyes?
          No, no, no, no,no!
          Hey nonney, nonney, no!

And thus, to win her grace,
     My patient heart it striveth,
Content to bide a space
     Until the day arriveth
          When she flouteth me,
          She scouteth me,
          She doubteth me no mo’;
And when I, grown doubly dear,
     This word shall never hear:
          No, no, no, no,no!
          Hey nonney, nonney, no!