Weep You No More, Sad Fountains

Another poem/song found in this delightful little book from Jamie's shelf.  You can hear it sung in the 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility by 'Marianne' played by the wonderful Kate Winslet.

I don't seem to poses the computer skills necessary to embed the youtube video onto my page (!) but if you're interested in hearing it sung (so beautifully I will add) then click here to watch...

Weep you no more, sad fountains;

What need you flow so fast?

Look how the snowy mountains

Heaven's sun doth gently waste.

But my sun's heavenly eyes

View not your weeping,

That now lies sleeping

Softly, now lies 

Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,

A rest that peace begets.

Doth not the sunrise smiling

When fair at even he sets?

Rest you then, rest, sad eyes,

Melt not in weeping,

While he lies sleeping

Softly, now lies

Sleeping.

There is no author listed; just anon, which probably meant it was written by a woman.  I believe this was often the case in Elizabethan times.  Funny I thought the queen was a woman!

Shell xx