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Hard destinies are love and beauty parted

John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)



Hard destinies are love and beauty parted,
Fair Daphne so disdainful!
Cupid, thy shafts are too unjustly darted;
Fond love, thy wounds are painful:
But sith my lovely jewel
Is prov’d so coy and cruel,
I’ll live and frolic in her beauty’s treasure,
But languish, faint, and die in her displeasure

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
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Words 53
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

John Wilbye

John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574 – September 1638) was an English madrigal composer. more…

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