John Dowland - First Booke of Songes

Unquiet Thoughts

Unquiet thoughts, your civil slaughter stint,
And wrap your wrongs within a pensive heart:
And you: my tongue that makes my mouth a mint,
And stamps my thoughts to coin them words by art,
Be still: for if you ever do the like
I'll cut the string that makes the hammer strike.

But what can stay my thoughts they may not start,
Or put my tongue in durance for to die?
When as these eyes, the keys of mouth and heart,
Open the lock where all my love doth lie;
I'll seal them up within their lids for ever:
So thought's, and words, and looks shall die together.

How shall I gaze on my mistress' eyes?
My thoughts must have some vent: else heart will break.
My tongue would rust as in my mouth it lies,
If eyes and thoughts were free, and that not speak.
Speak then, and tell the passions of desire;
Which turns mine eyes to floods, my thoughts to fire



Credits
Writer(s): John Dowland, Mats Ove Anders Olofsson, Peter Olofsson, Mikael Carl Marin, George Arthur Kentros, Tony Bauer
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Unquiet Thoughts
  2. Who Ever Thinks or Hopes of Love
  3. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
  4. If My Complaints
  5. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
  6. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
  7. Dear, If You Change
  8. Burst Forth My Tears
  9. Go Crystal Tears
  10. Think'st Thou Then by Thy Feigning

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Altri album

  1. Dowland - Great Recordings
  2. John Dowland - The Essentials
  3. A Pleasing Melancholy: Works by Dowland & Others
  4. Then & Now - John Dowland Remixed
  5. Dowland: Lachrimae "Seven Tears"
  6. Dowland: The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
  7. Come Again
  8. Lullaby - English Renaissance Lute Music -
  9. John Dowland: The King Of Denmark, His Galliard (MIDI Version)
  10. John Dowland: Melancholy Galliard (MIDI Version)

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