Charm me asleep, op.24:3 (Henry David Leslie)

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• (Posted 2023-11-09)  CPDL #77124:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 433 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-05-06)  CPDL #54153:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-05-06).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 109 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: Charm me asleep, op.24:3
Composer: Henry David Leslie
Lyricist: Robert Herrick

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: a capella

First published: 1869 in Novello Part-Song Book (2nd Series), Vol. 2, no. 85
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Original text and translations

English text

Charm me asleep, and melt me so
With thy delicious numbers,
That, being ravish'd, hence I go
Away in easy slumbers.