John Dowland citations (7 citations)

“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.”

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

“Flow my tears, fall from your springs,
Exil'd for ever: let me mourn
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.”

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"Flow my tears", line 1, The Second Book of Songs (1600).

“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.”

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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.
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“Hark you shadows that in darkness dwell,
Learn to contemn light,
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite.”

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"Flow my tears", line 21, The Second Book of Songs.

“Always Dowland, always sorrowful.”
Semper Dowland semper dolens.

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Title of a pavan in Lachrimae, or Seven Tears (1604).

“He was the rarest musician that his age did behold; having travelled beyond the seas, and compounded English with foreign skill in that faculty.”

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Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England ([1662] 1840), vol. 2, p. 426.
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“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.”

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

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John Dowland: Citations en anglais