Love is a sickness (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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  • (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77861:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 246 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Love is a sickness
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Samuel Daniel
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: English
Instruments: Unknown

First published: 1913 Stainer & Bell
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Original text and translations

Unknown language

Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies;
If not enjoyed, it sighing cries,
Heigh ho!