In Time I Sing

 In time I sing a song with spirit

For a longing so near it

That the pleasures they possess

In here increase in flesh

Love to bring my days with ease

All ways to please

By your charms

Unless you save me in your arms.

But my heart is worn

By your woeful scorn

I shall perish at thy breast

For I can no longer 

Feel comfort in my rest.

A Parting Sigh

 When I am free

Where'er I do fly

I am beneath so far,

Mine soul does cry.

All is lost

Joy ephemeral

O gone is my bliss

With sorrow I do kiss

Your timorous being.

Disgorge my overflowing heart

As such can I never salvage

My efflorescent mind.

But then my blissful soul you prove

Pleasures and pain you move.

O pity me

If by constant tenderness

Ah! Cruel evening breeze

Which made me freeze!

Sorrow is my friend

Sleeping there at my end

Never wanting for a parting sigh

I fall and softly die.

When Fate Calls

When I am at rest,

My mind goes down below

All the pleasures they bestow

Unwelcome guests.

On a rock I rest 

The tide threatening

To take me

Where I know best.

At once I am called to that place so deep

With ease I have wept

A comfort where I slept.

Falling-

My way calling

To an endless turning

My soul surely burning

For when fate calls you

You go to certain misery.

Round and round

Floating and yearning

O my Dear!

O my Dear!

Gently falling

When I am at rest,

My mind goes down below

All the pleasures they bestow

Unwelcome guests.