With sick and famish'd eyes - Purcell, Henry

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⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Arias

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → Solo high

◆ Difficulty

Expert (Grade 6-8)

↕ Range D2 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 59

Texture Homophonic

Parts 3

Instruments Basso continuo

Pages 6

CPDL # 38219

Editor Willem Verkaik

Posted 2016-01-18

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

C4 – G5

Organ

D2 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

With sick and famish'd eyes, With doubling knees and weary bones, To thee my cries, To thee my groans, To thee my sighs, my tears ascend: No end? My throat, my soul is hoarse; My heart is wither'd like a ground Which thou dost curse; My thoughts turn round And make me giddy; Lord, Lord, I fall Yet call. Bowels of pity hear! Lord of my soul, love of my mind, Bow down thine ear! Let not thy wind Scatter my words, and in the same Thy name! Look on my sorrows round! Mark well my furnace! O what flames, What heats abound! What griefs, what shames! Consider, Lord, Lord, bow thine ear And hear! Lord Jesu, thou didst bow Thy dying head upon the tree; O be not now More dead to me! Lord, hear! Lord, hear! shall he that made the ear Not hear? Behold thy dust doth stir, It moves, it creeps to thee; Do not defer To succour me, Thy pile of dust wherein each crumb Says "Come". My love, my sweetness, hear! By these thy feet, at which my heart Lies all the year, Pluck out thy dart, And heal my troubled breast, which cries, Which dies.

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