Phillis (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• (Posted 2016-04-29)  CPDL #39453:  Capella

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-04-29).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Phillis
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

Published: 1898

Description: Eight Four-part Songs (1898) No.1

1. Phillis
2. O Love, they wrong thee much
3. At her fair hands (Robert Jones)
4. Home of My Heart (Arthur Benson)
5. You gentle nymphs
6. Come pretty wag
7. Ye thrilled me once (Robert Seymour Bridges)
8. Better music ne'er were known (Francis Beaumont and Fletcher)

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Original text and translations

English text

Phillis, a herd maid dainty,
Who hath no peer for beauty,
By Thyrsis was requested
To hear the wrongs wherewith his heart was wrested.
But she Diana served,
And would not hear how love poor lovers sterved.
 
Phillis more white than lilies,
More fair than Amaryllis,
More cold than crystal fountain,
More hard than craggy rock or stony mountain,
O tiger fierce and spiteful,
Why hatest thou love, sith love is so delightful.