by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
A thousand sev'ral ways I tried
Language: English
A thousand sev'ral ways I tried To hide my passions from your view, Conscious that I should be denied, Because I cannot merit you. Absence, the last and worst of all, Did so increase my wretched pain, That I return'd, rather to fall By the swift fate of your disdain.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "A thousand sev'ral ways I tried", Z. 359, published 1681. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 50