Love is a sickness (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 246 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Love is a sickness
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Samuel Daniel
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
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!