Sweet stay a while - Dowland, John

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"Various performance options exist: solo voice (soprano or tenor) plus lute and (preferably) bass viol; SATB plus lute; S, 3 viols plus lute."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Lute songs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments Lute, optional viols

Pages 2

CPDL # 17035

Editor David Fraser

Posted 2008-05-30

License CPDL License

¶Lyrics / Text

Sweet stay a while, why will you rise? The light you see comes from your eyes: The day breakes not, it is my heart, To thinke that you and I must part. O stay, or else my joyes must dye, And perish in their infancie. Deare let me dye in this faire breast, Farre sweeter then the Phoenix next. Love raise desire by his sweete charmes Within this circle of thine armes: And let thy blissefull kisses cherish Mine infant joyes, that else must perish. :attrib. John Donne (1572-1631)