Sweetheart, Sigh No More! (op. 14, no. 3)

"Sweetheart, Sigh No More!" is the third song of Beach's Four Songs, Op.14. The text comes from Aldrich's 1890 volume Wyndham Towers.

Date: 1891Composer: Amy Marcy BeachText: Thomas Bailey AldrichSong Collection: Four songs, Op. 14

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It Was With Doubt and Trembling
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It was with doubt and trembling
I whispered in her ear.
Go, take her answer, bird-on-bough,
That all the world may hear —
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sing it, sing it, tawny throat,
Upon the wayside tree,
How fair she is, how true she is,
How dear she is to me —
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sing it, sing it, tawny throat,
And through the summer long
The winds among the clover-tops
And brooks, for all their silvery stops,
Shall envy you the song —
Sweetheart, sigh no more!

Sheet Music

"Four Songs," Op. 14

Composer(s): Amy Beach

Song(s): The Summer Wind
Le secret
Sweetheart, Sigh No More"
The Thrush

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