My gostly fader (Anonymous, set by P. Warlock) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 My gostly fader, I me confesse,
 First to God and then to you,
 That at a window (wot ye how?)
 I stale a cosse of grete sweteness,
 Which don was out avisèness;
 But hit is doon, not undoon now.
 My gostly fader, I me confesse
 First to God and then to you.

 But I restore it shall doutless 
 Agein, if so be that I mow;
 And that to God I make a vow
 And elles I axè for yefness.
 My gostly fader, I me confesse
 First to God and then to you.

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Based on

text

Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394-1465)

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

Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym]

Date added to the website: 2003-10-19.

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