Thou hast made me (Donne, set by B. Britten, D. Moore, W. Wordsworth, L. Berkeley, G. Burgon) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
Repaire me now, for now mine end doth haste,
I runne to death, and death meets me as fast,
And all my pleasures are like yesterday;
I dare not move my dim eyes anyway,
Despaire behind, and death before doth cast
Such terror, and my feeble flesh doth waste
By sinne in it, which it t'wards Hell doth weigh;
Onely thou art above, and when t'wards thee
By thy leave I can looke, I rise againe;
But our old subtle foe so tempteth me,
That not one houre myselfe can I sustaine;
Thy Grace may wing me to prevent his art,
And thou like Adamant draw mine iron heart.

Authorship

John Donne (1572-1631)

Holy Sonnets

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

Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)

(Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

Geoffrey Burgon (1941-)

Heavenly Things

Douglas Stuart Moore (1893-1969)

Three Sonnets of John Donne Set to Music

William B. Wordsworth (1908-1988)

Four Sacred Sonnets

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