From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part II, Il Penseroso
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
A flat major |
Meter |
3/4 |
Tempo |
Largo e pianissimo |
Length |
72 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Hide me from day’s garish eye, |
While the bee with honied thigh, |
Which at her flow’ry worth doth sing, |
And the waters murmuring, |
With such consort as they keep |
Entice the dewy-feather’d sleep; |
And let some strange mysterious dream |
Wave at his wings in airy stream |
Of lively portraiture display’d, |
Softly on my eyelids laid. |
Then as I wake, sweet music breathe, |
Above, about, or underneath, |
Sent by some spirit to mortals good, |
Or th’unseen genius of the wood. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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