Dowland | Come again, sweet love | Academy of Ancient Music

Join us at our next concert: https://www.aam.co.uk 'Come again, sweet love' by John Dowland (1563–1626), performed live at Milton Court Concert Hall, London. Anna Dennis, soprano soloist Thomas Walker, tenor soloist Jessica Gillingwater, soprano Martha McClorinan, alto Jimmy Holliday, bass Academy of Ancient Music ~~~ 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. Come again! That I may cease to mourn Through thy unkind disdain; For now left and forlorn I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die In deadly pain and endless misery. All the day The sun that lends me shine By frowns do cause me pine And feeds me with delay; Her smiles, my springs that makes my joys to grow, Her frowns the Winters of my woe. All the night My sleeps are full of dreams, My eyes are full of streams. My heart takes no delight To see the fruits and joys that some do find And mark the storms are me assign'd. Out alas, My faith is ever true, Yet will she never rue Nor yield me any grace; Her eyes of fire, her heart of flint is made, Whom tears nor truth may once invade. Gentle Love, Draw forth thy wounding dart, Thou canst not pierce her heart; For I, that do approve By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts Did tempt while she for triumph laughs. ~~~