Flow My Tears - John Dowland

Flow my tears fall from your springs,

Exiled for ever let me mourn

Where nights black bird her sad infamy sings

There let me live forlorn.


Down vain lights shine you no more

No nights are dark enough for those

That in despair her dark fortunes deplore,

Light doth but shame disclose,


Never may my woes be relieved

Since pity is fled and tears, and sighs,

and groans my weary days

of all joys have deprived.


From the highest spire of contentment

My fortune is thrown, and fear, and grief,

And pain for my deserts,

Are my hopes since hope is gone.


Hark you shadows that in darkness dwell,

Learn to contemn light,

Happy they that in hell

Feel not the worlds despite.