Court Odes: Rise, thou best and brightest morning


 Selected item (#2114) = Rise, thou best and brightest morning
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incipit (first line(s), normalized): Rise, thou best and brightest morning
version (if more than one exists): Printed poem 1652; used for ode 1666 - 1672
the item's genre (general): ode
the item's genre (specific): New Year’s Day
the institution/place or purpose 
for which the work was first destined:
English court
the work's year (or focal date, if known): 1670 - 1672
author of the text: Richard Crashaw
composer of the music: Henry Cooke
Data-note concerning sources (EMM, Fri Apr 8 12:05:30 2022, updated Wed May 18 14:38:31 2022):

See file Rise_thou_best_Chorus_Let_them_make_poore.pdf
Number of texts stored: 2  
  • Text #263 / Source: GB-Bu 5001, ff. 11-14 / version: Music manuscript (Henry Cooke autograph)
  • Selected text (below): #262 / Source: Richard Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnus Sacred Poems ... (London: Peter Targa ..., 1652), pp. 17-18 / version: Printed poem 1652
 Selected text (#262) / Source: Richard Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnus Sacred Poems ... (London: Peter Targa ..., 1652), pp. 17-18  
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source for this text
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Richard Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnus Sacred Poems ... (London: Peter Targa ..., 1652)
location in the source?
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pp. 17-18
type of source: print, literary text, anthology
the source online (if available): open link
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version (if more than one exists): Printed poem 1652
about this transcription: Transcribed by Estelle Murphy, April 2022.
Data-note concerning dating | genre (EMM, Fri Apr 8 11:03:12 2022, updated Fri Apr 15 16:46:06 2022):
This poem appears in later sources with the title ‘Hymn on the Circumcision of our Lord’. Probably not originally written to be set to music. Cooke uses the text for his New year’s Day ode between 1666 and 1672. Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649).
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               NEW YEAR’S
                    DAY

Rise, thou best & brightest morning!
Rosy with a double Red;
With thine own blush thy cheeks adorning,
And the dear drops this day were shed.

All the purple pride that laces
The crimson curtains of thy bed,
Gilds thee not with so sweet graces,
Nor setts thee in so rich a red.

Of all the fair-cheek’t flowrs that fill thee
None so fair thy bosom strowes,
As this modest maiden lily,
Our sins have sham’d into a rose.

Bid thy golden God, the Sun,
Burnisht in his best beams rise,
Put all his red-ey’d Rubies on;
Those Rubies shall putt out their eyes.

Let him make poor the purple east,
Search what the world’s close cabinets keep,
Rob the rich births of each bright nest,
That flaming in their fair beds sleep,

Let him embraue his own bright tresses
With a new morning made of gemmes;
And wear, in those his wealthy dresses,
Another Day of Diadems.

When he hath done all he may,
To make himself rich in his rise,
All will be darkness to the Day
That breaks from one of these bright eyes.

And soon this sweet truth shall appear,
Dear BABE, e’er many days be done:
The moon shall come to meet thee here,
And leaue her own neglected Sun.

Here are Beautyes shall bereaue him,
Of all his eastern Paramours:
His Persian lovers all shall leaue him,
And swear faith to thy sweeter Powres.


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