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November 2009 
early winter
Posted on Dec 23rd, 2008
by 
sherab
sherab
Trills on a mandolin shimmer in the cool Florida evening.
A black and white cat curls his tail around his feet and waits for dinner.
Venus swings low in the south east. bright like the first star.
Something in my heart remains unsettled.
One letter left un-written.
One card left un-sent.
Far off memories of your face
Nick the corner of my vision.
Another year ending on a minor chord
A black and white cat curls his tail around his feet and waits for dinner.
Venus swings low in the south east. bright like the first star.
Something in my heart remains unsettled.
One letter left un-written.
One card left un-sent.
Far off memories of your face
Nick the corner of my vision.
Another year ending on a minor chord
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Ralph Vaughan Williams ’Mass in G minor : Kyrie’
Actually I was thinking of something more like one of Dowland’s little songs.
so many delights, very true… like this
I have to confess - i use dial-up so youtube is a long wait. But, “If my complaints could passions move”, is one that I used to play (awkwardly)
Really it’s more common for those songs to end on a major chord - Usually the third or the sixth- I think it’s called Neapolitan cadence. It has the effect of making an odd rising feel at the end of a phrase. Thomas Campion is good from that period too.
Shall I come sweet love to thee
When the evening beams are set?
Shall I not excluded be?
Will you find no fainéd let?
Let me not for pity more
Tell the long, long hours
Tell the long hour at your door
Who can tell what thief or foe,
In the cover of the night
for his prey will work my woe;
Or through wicked soul despite,
So may I die unredressed,
Ere my long, long love,
Ere my long love be possessed.
But to let such dangers pass,
Which a lover’s thoughts disdain,
“Tis enough in such a place,
To attend love’s joys in vain
do not mock me in thy bed
While these cold, cold nights,
While these cold nights freeze me dead