The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart - Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Бенджамин Бриттен

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart - Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Бенджамин Бриттен

  • Album: Britten: 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo / Holy Sonnets of J. Donne / Winter Words (English Song, Vol. 7)

  • Year of release: 2004
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 1:16

Below is the lyrics of the song The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart , artist - Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Бенджамин Бриттен with translation

Lyrics " The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart "

Original text with translation

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart

Steuart Bedford, Philip Langridge, Бенджамин Бриттен

Batter my heart, three person’d God;

for you

As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;

That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend

Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new

I, like an usurpt towne, to another due

Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end

Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend

But is captiv’d, and proves weake or untrue

Yet dearely I love you, and would be loved faine

But am betroth’d unto your enemie:

Divorce mee, untie, or breake that knot againe

Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I

Except you enthrall mee, never shall be free

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish mee

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