Rest Awhile you Cruel Cares letra

Rest awhile, you cruel cares
Be not more severe than love.
Beauty kills and beauty spares,
And sweet smiles sad sighs remove:
Laura, fair queen of my delight,
Come grant me love in love's despite,
And if I fail ever to honour thee,
Let this heavenly light I see,
Be as dark as hell to me.

If I speak, my words want weight,
Am I mute, my heart doth break,
If I sigh, she fears deceit,
Sorrow then for me must speak:
Cruel unkind, with favour view
The wound that first was made by you:
And if my torments feigned be,
Let this heavenly light I see,
Be as dark as hell to me.

Never hour of pleasing rest
Shall revive my dying gost,
Till my soul hath repossess'd
The sweet hope which love hath lost:
Laura redeem the soul that dies,
By fury of thy murdering eyes:
And if it prove unkind to thee,
Let this heavenly light I see,
Be as dark as hell to me

John Dowland - Letras

• All Ye Whom Love Of Fortune
• Can she Excuse my Wrongs?
• Come again
• Come away, Come Sweet Love
• Dear, if you Change
• Fine knacks for ladies
• Flow, my tears
• Go Crystal Tears
• I saw my lady weep
• If my Complaints could Passions Move
• Lachrimae
• My Thoughts are Wing'd with Hopes
• Now, o Now, I Needs must Part
• Rest Awhile you Cruel Cares
• Think'st Thou then by thy Feigning
• Unquiet Thoughts
• Who ever Thinks or Hopes of Love