John Dowland: Sweets

John Dowland was English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. Explore interesting quotes on sweets.
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“Come again: sweet love doth now invite,
Thy graces that refrain,
To do me due delight,
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,
With thee again in sweetest sympathy.”

John Dowland

"Come again", line 1, The First Book of Songs.

Love , Kiss

“My favourite musician happens to be the same as Shakespeare's: John Dowland. His songs are sorrowful but heal the soul by their sweetness and courage.”

John Dowland

Robert Graves, letter to Idries Shah, September 6, 1968; published in Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972, (1984), p. 272.
Criticism

Soul , Courage

“True love cannot be changed,
Though delight from desert
Be estranged.
Farewell, farewell
But yet or ere I part (O cruel),
Kiss me sweet, kiss me sweet my jewel.”

John Dowland

"Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart", line 25, The First Book of Songs (1597).

Love , Kiss , Change , Parting