George Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love?As when the dove
(from Acis and Galatea) (1718)
Text: John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Hughes,
After Ovid?s Metamorphoses, xiii
Original Key/Recorded Key: F Major
Teach-Track begins: m. 1 of recitative
Accompaniment Track begins: m. 1 of recitative
Pianist: Daniel Michalak
As when the dove
Laments her love,
All on the naked spray;
When he returns,
No more she mourns,
But loves the live-long day.
Billing, cooing,
Panting, wooing,
Melting murmurs fill the grove,
Melting murmurs, lasting love.
As when [. . .] da capo