Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Dowland: First Booke of Songes, 1597 - 12. Rest awhile you cruel cares , by - Julian Bream. Song from the album Renaissance Vol.2, in the genre Мировая классикаDowland: First Booke of Songes, 1597 - 12. Rest awhile you cruel cares |
| Rest awhile, you cruel cares |
| Be not more severe than love |
| Beauty kills and beauty spares |
| And sweet smiles sad sighs remove: |
| Laura, fair queen of my delight |
| Come grant me love in love’s despite |
| And if I fail ever to honour thee |
| Let this heavenly light I see |
| Be as dark as hell to me |
| If I speak, my words want weight |
| Am I mute, my heart doth break |
| If I sigh, she fears deceit |
| Sorrow then for me must speak: |
| Cruel unkind, with favour view |
| The wound that first was made by you: |
| And if my torments feigned be |
| Let this heavenly light I see |
| Be as dark as hell to me |
| Never hour of pleasing rest |
| Shall revive my dying gost |
| Till my soul hath repossess’d |
| The sweet hope which love hath lost: |
| Laura redeem the soul that dies |
| By fury of thy murdering eyes: |
| And if it prove unkind to thee |
| Let this heavenly light I see |
| Be as dark as hell to me |
Lyrics of the artist's songs: Julian Bream
Lyrics of the artist's songs: Джон Доуленд