Henry Purcell: Purcell Society Volume 25 - Secular Songs

Contents

• Purcell: A choir of bright beauties
• Purcell: A thousand sev'ral ways Z 359
• Purcell: Aaron thus propos'd to Moses Z 351
• Purcell: Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353
• Purcell: Ah! cruel nymph, you give despair, Z352
• Purcell: Ah! What pains Z354
• Purcell: Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams Z355
• Purcell: Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356
• Purcell: Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357
• Purcell: Ask me to love no more, Z358
• Purcell: Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360
• Purcell: Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461
• Purcell: Beware, poor shepherds Z361
• Purcell: Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain Z362
• Purcell: Cease, O My Sad Soul Z 363
• Purcell: Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364
• Purcell: Corinna is divinely fair, Z365
• Purcell: Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367
• Purcell: Draw near, you lovers Z462
• Purcell: Farewell, all joys Z368
• Purcell: Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z463
• Purcell: Fly swift ye hours, Z369
• Purcell: From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam') Z370
• Purcell: Gentle shepherds, you that know the charms, Z464
• Purcell: He himself courts his own ruin, Z372
• Purcell: Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371
• Purcell: High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z465
• Purcell: Honours may crown (The triumphs of a conquering lover)
• Purcell: How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z373
• Purcell: How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain Z374
• Purcell: How peaceful the days are Z D133
• Purcell: I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375
• Purcell: I envy not a monarch's fate Z 376
• Purcell: I fain would be free Z 377
• Purcell: I love and I must ('Bell Barr'), Z382
• Purcell: I loved fair Celia, Z381
• Purcell: I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386
• Purcell: I saw that you were grown so high, Z387
• Purcell: I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388
• Purcell: If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378
• Purcell: If music be the food of love (second version), Z379B
• Purcell: If music be the food of love Z379A
• Purcell: If Music be the Food of Love, Z. 379C
• Purcell: If pray'rs and tears, Z380
• Purcell: In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384
• Purcell: In vain we dissemble, Z385
• Purcell: Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383
• Purcell: Leave these useless arts in loving Z389
• Purcell: Let each gallant heart Z390
• Purcell: Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391
• Purcell: Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466
• Purcell: Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392
• Purcell: Love is now become a trade, Z393
• Purcell: Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind, Z396
• Purcell: Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z395
• Purcell: Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394
• Purcell: More love or more disdain I crave, Z397
• Purcell: Musing on cares of human fate Z467
• Purcell: No watch, dear Celia, just is found Z401
• Purcell: No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468
• Purcell: Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400
• Purcell: O how happy's he, Z403
• Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
• Purcell: O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402
• Purcell: Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404
• Purcell: On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405
• Purcell: Pastora's beauties when unblown Z407
• Purcell: Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z409
• Purcell: Phyllis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408
• Purcell: Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410
• Purcell: Rashly I swore I would disown Z411
• Purcell: Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412
• Purcell: Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z469
• Purcell: See how the fading glories of the year Z470
• Purcell: She loves and she confesses too, Z413
• Purcell: She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414
• Purcell: She, who my poor heart possesses, Z415
• Purcell: Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z416
• Purcell: Since the pox or the plague Z471
• Purcell: Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417
• Purcell: Stript of their green our groves appear, Z444
• Purcell: Sweet tyranness, I now resign (ZS 70)
• Purcell: Sweet, be no longer sad Z 418
• Purcell: Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512
• Purcell: Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z420
• Purcell: The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421
• Purcell: They say you're angry Z422
• Purcell: This poet sings the Trojan wars ('Anacreon's Defeat') Z423
• Purcell: Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z424
• Purcell: Turn then thine eyes, Z425
• Purcell: Urge me no more, Z426
• Purcell: We now, my Thyrsis, never find Z 427
• Purcell: What a sad fate is mine, Z428
• Purcell: What a sad fate is mine, Z428A
• Purcell: What can we poor females do?, Z429
• Purcell: What hope for us remains now he is gone? Z472
• Purcell: When first Amintas sued for a kiss, Z430
• Purcell: When first my shepherdess and I, Z431
• Purcell: When her languishing eyes said 'Love!', Z432
• Purcell: When I a lover pale do see Z 433
• Purcell: When my Aemelia smiles, Z434
• Purcell: When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435
• Purcell: When Thyrsis did the spendid eye Z 436
• Purcell: While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437
• Purcell: Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still Z438
• Purcell: Who but a slave can well express, Z440
• Purcell: Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441
• Purcell: Why so serious, why so grave? Z 442
• Purcell: Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind Z443
• Purcell: Young Thirsis' fate, Z473