Weep you no more, sad fountains

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need [you]1 flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste!
But my sun's heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping,
[Softly now, softly]2 lies
Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at [e'en]3 he sets?
Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes!
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleeping,
[Softly now, softly]2 lies
Sleeping.

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , 16^th century

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

by Robert Fairfax Birch (1917-) , "Weep you no more"
by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) , "Weep you no more, sad fountains", 1912?, published 2001.
by Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) , "Weep you no more sad fountains", published 1925.
by John Dowland (1562-1626) , "Weep you no more, sad fountains"
by John Edmunds (1913-1986) , "Weep you no more, sad fountains", 1938.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Tears", from Five Elizabethan Songs (The Elizas), no. 2.
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "Weep you no more", op. 16 no. 3, from Six Songs, no. 3.
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "Weep you no more", 1895-6, published 1896, from English Lyrics, set 4 no. 4
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "Weep you no more", op. 12 no. 1, from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, no. 1.

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