Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Anonymous. 160365. Tears John Dowland’s Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs
WEEP you no more, sad fountains; | |
What need you flow so fast? | |
Look how the snowy mountains | |
Heaven’s sun doth gently waste! | |
But my Sun’s heavenly eyes | 5 |
View not your weeping, | |
That now lies sleeping | |
Softly, now softly lies | |
Sleeping. | |
Sleep is a reconciling, | 10 |
A rest that peace begets; | |
Doth not the sun rise smiling | |
When fair at even he sets? | |
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes! | |
Melt not in weeping, | 15 |
While she lies sleeping | |
Softly, now softly lies | |
Sleeping. |