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I Saw My Lady Weep - an Anonymous 16th Century Poem

Famous melancholic Elizabethan poem. The poem was set to music by John Dowland. My favourite song version is that by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten:    • I Saw My Lady Weep   I saw my Lady weep, And Sorrow proud to be advanced so In those fair eyes, where all perfections keep; Her face was full of woe, But such a woe, believe me, as wins more hearts Than mirth can do, with her enticing parts. Sorrow was there made fair, And Passion, wise; Tears, a delightful thing; Silence, beyond all speech, a wisdom rare; She made her sighs to sing, And all things with so sweet a sadness move; As made my heart at once both grieve and love. O fairer than aught else The world can show, leave off, in time, to grieve, Enough, enough! Your joyful looks excels; Tears kills the heart, believe, O strive not to be excellent in woe, Which only breeds your beauty’s overthrow. Anonymous 16th Century