The Sick Heart (Jennifer Bastable)

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•  Posted on 2026-04-30(Posted 2026-04-30)  CPDL #89071:     

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2026-04-30).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 346 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Sick Heart
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Arthur Symons
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB + Soprano
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for four voices and soprano soloist, of Arthur Symons's poem The Sick Heart.

Original text and translations

English text

Sick heart, be at rest!
Is there nothing that I can do
To quiet your crying in my breast?
Will nothing comfort you?

“I am sick of a malady
There is but one thing can assuage:
Cure me of youth, and, see,
I will be wise in age!”