Love is a sickness full of woes
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Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that [with most]1 cutting grows,
Most barren with best using,
Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies;
If not enjoy'd it sighing cries
Heigh ho! Heigh ho!
Love is a torment of the mind,
A tempest everlasting;
And Jove hath made [of it]2 a kind
Not well, nor full, nor fasting.
Why so?
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1 Parry: "most with"
2 Parry: "it of"
Input by Ted Perry
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
, "Love is a sickness", op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 1, published 1922. [voice and piano] ![[setting text not yet verified]](/images/ball.white.gif)
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949)
, "Love is a torment of the mind", 1899. [voice and piano]
by John Ireland (1879-1962)
, "Love is a sickness full of woes" ![[setting text verified]](/images/ball.green.gif)
by Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)
, "Love is a sickness" [partsong]
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
, "Love is a sickness", op. 21 no. 4, published 1873 [choral], from A Garland of Shakesperian and Other Old-Fashioned Songs, no. 4.
by John Raynor (1909-1970)
, "Love is a sickness", published 1971 [voice and piano], from Eleven Songs, no. 5.
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