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Author: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Fair is my Love (Fair is my Love, when her fair golden hairs) - A. Bliss
Fair is my Love, when her fair golden hairs
A. Bliss: Fair is my Love

Faire is the heaven (Faire is the heaven, where happy soules have place ) - W. Harris
Faire is the heaven, where happy soules have place
W. Harris: Faire is the heaven

Faire ye be sure (Faire ye be sure, but cruell and unkind) - M. Greene
Faire ye be sure, but cruell and unkind
M. Greene: Faire ye be sure

How long shall this (How long shall this like dying life endure) - M. Greene
How long shall this like dying life endure
M. Greene: How long shall this

Like as the Culver (Like as the Culver on the bared bough) - M. Greene
Like as the Culver on the bared bough
M. Greene: Like as the Culver

[No Title] (My love is like to ice, and I to fire) - J. Berger
My love is like to ice, and I to fire
J. Berger: My love is like to ice, and I to fire

One day I wrote her name upon the strand
B. Holten: Sonnet 75

Sonnet XXVI (Sweet is the Rose, but growes vpon a brere )
M. Blitzstein: Sweet is the rose

Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) - B. Holten
Sonnet LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand)
B. Holten: Sonnet 75

Sweet is the rose (Sweet is the Rose, but growes vpon a brere ) - M. Blitzstein
Sweet is the Rose, but growes vpon a brere
M. Blitzstein: Sweet is the rose

Sweet smile (Sweet smile, the daughter of the Queene of Love) - M. Greene
Sweet smile, the daughter of the Queene of Love
M. Greene: Sweet smile

The joyous birds hid under greenwood shade
The love which me (The love which me so cruelly tormenteth) - M. Greene
The love which me so cruelly tormenteth
M. Greene: The love which me

The merry cuckoo (The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring) - B. Britten
The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring
B. Britten: The merry cuckoo

The rolling wheele (The rolling wheele that runneth often round) - M. Greene
The rolling wheele that runneth often round
M. Greene: The rolling wheele

What if some little pain (What if some little pain the passage have) - N. Rorem
What if some little pain the passage have
N. Rorem: What if some little pain