Fond request (Suckling, set by F. Van der Stucken) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


I pray thee, send me back my heart
Since I cannot have thine,
For if from yours you will not part
Why then should you keep mine?

But now I think on't, let it lie
To find it were in vain,
For th'hast a thief in either eye
Would steal it back again!

Why should two hearts in one breast lie
And yet not lodge together?
O love where is thy sympathy?
If thus our breasts thou sever!

Input by Hanne-Joost Peeters

Authorship

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858-1929)

Set in a modified version by

Jean Berger (1909-2002)

Amoretti: Five love songs on poems by 16th and 17th century authors

Henry Lawes (c1595-1662)

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

GER

German

Date added to the website: 2009-02-15.

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