Queen and huntress (William Wooding Starmer)

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• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78084:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 521 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Queen and huntress
Composer: William Wooding Starmer
Lyricist: Ben Jonson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

(addressing the moon)

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair,
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess, excellently bright.

Earth, let not an envious shade
Dare itself to interpose;
Cynthia’s shining orb was made
Heaven to clear when day did close:
Bless us then with wishèd sight,
Goddess, excellently bright.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart,
And thy crystal-shining quiver;
Give unto the flying hart
Space to breathe, how short soever;
Thou that mak’st a day of night,
Goddess, excellently bright.