John Wilbye

7 March 1574 - September 1638 / Brome, Suffolk

Ah! Cannot Sighs Not Tears

Ah! cannot sighs not tears, nor aught else move thee
To pity me, who more than life do love thee?
O cruel fates! see, now away she’s flying,
And fly, alas! alas! and leave me dying.
Farewell, most fair, farewell, yet more disdainful:
Was never grief like mine, nor death more painful.
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