Ah! how sweet it is to love

Ah! how sweet it is to love;
how gay is young desire!
And what pleasing pains we prove,
When first we feel a lover's fire;
Pains of love are sweeter far,
Than all other pleasures are.

by John Dryden (1631-1700) , from Tyrannic Love

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

by Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695) , "Ah! how sweet it is to love", Z. 613, from Incidental Music to Tyrannic Love -or- The Royal Martyr, no. 2.

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