Phillis (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- (Posted 2016-04-29) CPDL #39453:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-04-29). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 84 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The marked tempo in the source of crotchet=140 seems far too fast. The tempo in the mid file is 108.
General Information
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
- Phillis
- O Love, they wrong thee much
- At her fair hands
- Home of my heart
- You gentle nymphs
- Come pretty wag
- Ye thrilled me once
- Better music ne'er was known
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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.