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John Dowland
7 quotes
“True love cannot be changed, Though delight from desert Be estranged. Farewell, farewell But yet or ere I part (O cruel), Kiss me sweet, kiss me sweet my jewel.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) first seen 1597 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart", line 25, The First Book of Songs (1597).
“Come again: sweet love doth now invite, Thy graces that refrain, To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest sympathy.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Flow my tears, fall from your springs, Exil'd for ever: let me mourn Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorn.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) first seen 1600 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Flow my tears", line 1, The Second Book of Songs (1600).
“Hark you shadows that in darkness dwell, Learn to contemn light, Happy, happy they that in hell Feel not the world's despite.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Semper Dowland semper dolens.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) first seen 1604 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Title of a pavan in Lachrimae, or Seven Tears (1604).
“He was the rarest musician that his age did behold; having travelled beyond the seas, and compounded English with foreign skill in that faculty.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England ([1662] 1840), vol. 2, p. 426.
“My favourite musician happens to be the same as Shakespeare's: John Dowland. His songs are sorrowful but heal the soul by their sweetness and courage.”
John Dowland (1563–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Graves, letter to Idries Shah, September 6, 1968; published in Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972, (1984), p. 272.