Ephéméride éclectique d'une librocubiculariste glossophile et mélomane.
13 Janvier 2022
Poésie en musique ou musique poétique ?
O Solitude, my sweetest choice est une chanson anglaise composée par Henry Purcell vers 1685. L'oeuvre est destinée soit à une voix de soprano ou de contretenor. Le texte a été écrit par la poétesse anglaise Katherine Philips, qui s'est inspiré d'un poème de Marc-Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant.
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Anders Zorn - the Thorn bush
O Solitude
O solitude, my sweetest choice!
Places devoted to the night,
Remote from tumult and from noise,
How ye my restless thoughts delight!
O loneliness, my sweetest choice!
O heav’ns! what content is mine
To see these trees, which have appear’d
From the nativity of time,
And which all ages have rever’d,
To look today as fresh and green
As when their beauties first were seen.
O, how agreeable a sight
These hanging mountains do appear,
Which th ‘unhappy would invite
To finish all their sorrows here,
When their hard fate makes them endure
Such woes as only death can cure.
O, how I loneliness loves it!
That element of noblest wit,
Where I have learnt Apollo’s lore,
Without the pains to study it.
For thy sake I in love am grown
With what thy fancy does pursue;
But when I think upon my own,
I hate it for that reason too,
Because it needs must hinder me
From seeing and from serving thee.
O solitude, O how I solitude adores!
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Ephéméride éclectique d'une librocubiculariste glossophile et mélomane
