Benjamin Britten -
The English Song Series, Volume 7: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo / The Holy Sonnets of John Donne / Winter Words
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet VI: Oh my blacke Soule!
Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
By sicknesse, death's herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
Treason, and durst not turne to whence hee is fled,
Or like a thiefe, which till death's doome be read,
Wisheth himselfe deliver'd from prison;
But dam'd and hal'd to execution,
Wisheth that still he might be imprisoned.
Yet grace, if thou repent, thou canst not lacke;
But who shall give thee that grace to beginne?
Oh make thyselfe with holy mourning blacke,
And red with blushing, as thou are with sinne;
Or wash thee in Christ's blood, which hath this might
That being red, it dyes red soules to white.
By sicknesse, death's herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
Treason, and durst not turne to whence hee is fled,
Or like a thiefe, which till death's doome be read,
Wisheth himselfe deliver'd from prison;
But dam'd and hal'd to execution,
Wisheth that still he might be imprisoned.
Yet grace, if thou repent, thou canst not lacke;
But who shall give thee that grace to beginne?
Oh make thyselfe with holy mourning blacke,
And red with blushing, as thou are with sinne;
Or wash thee in Christ's blood, which hath this might
That being red, it dyes red soules to white.
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Other Album Tracks
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet VI: Oh my blacke Soule!
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet III: O might those sighes and teares
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet XIX: Oh, to vex me
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet XIII: What if this present
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet XVII: Since she whom I lov'd
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet VII: At the round earth's imagin'd corners
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet I: Thou hast made me
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35: Sonnet X: Death, be not proud
- Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22: Sonetto XVI: Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro
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