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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here are a selection of texts about love. Some texts also include listening links, notations on ideal voice type, and comments from IPA Source Founder & Principal Author, Bard Suverkrop.

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Droop Not, Young Lover as set by Georg Friedrich Händel

This is important song, perfect for bass, is from the opera “Ezio”
Text: https://www.ipasource.com/droop-not-young-lover.html

Endless Pleasure, Endless Love as set by Georg Friedrich Händel
This aria, perfect for soprano, is from “Semele”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/endless-pleasure-endless-love.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmR6ewx387w

I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly as set by Henry Purcell
This important song, perfect for soprano, is from “The Indian Queen”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/i-attempt-from-love-s-sickness-to-fly.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Pyiu1TUNM

Love is a Plaintive Song as set by Sir Arthur Sullivan
This text, perfect for soprano, is from “Patience”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-is-a-plaintive-song.html

Love quickly is pall’d as set by Henry Purcell
This text, perfect for alto, is from “Timon of Athens”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-quickly-is-pall-d.html

Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well as set by Sir Arthur Sullivan
This text, perfect for soprano, is from “H.M.S. Pinafore”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/sorry-her-lot-who-loves-too-well.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2Ae_iAWo8

When First My Old, Old Love I Knew as set by Sir Arthur Sullivan
This text, perfect for tenor, is from “Trial by Jury”

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/when-first-my-old-old-love-i-knew.html

Love Has Eyes as set by Henry Rowley (Charles Dibdin is the poet)
“This is an important teaching song,” says IPA Source Founder & Principal Author, Bard Suverkrop

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-has-eyes.html

Love’s Philosophy as set by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Perhaps the most important English song in this group,” says IPA Source Founder & Principal Author, Bard Suverkrop

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/love-s-philosophy.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWtrJMelgs

Go, Lovely Rose by Roger Quilter

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10509/category/3578/
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pSEiQkOWY

Amor by Richard Strauss

Text: https://www.ipasource.com/amor-7944.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqIza9VELM

English Collection

op. 12. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics by Roger Quilter

Texts: https://www.ipasource.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=op.+12.+Seven+Elizabethan+Lyrics&order=relevance&dir=desc
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzc8rPRrjtI

German collection

op. 048. Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love) by Robert Schumann
Texts: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/s/schumann-robert-alexander-1810-1856.html?search=op-048-dichterliebe#op-048-dichterliebe
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX1LTPV0QuA