Sweet, stay awhile (Anonymous, set by H. Lawes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Sweet, stay awhile; why do you rise?
The light you see comes from your eyes.
The day breaks not; it is my heart,
To think that I from you must part.
O stay! or else my joys must die,
And perish in their infancy.

O let me die on this fair breast,
Far sweeter than the Phoenix' nest;
Love raise desire with thy sweet charms
Within the centre of your arms,
And let those blissful kisses cherish
My infant joys, which else would perish.

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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

Henry Lawes (c1595-1662)

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