Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye

George Shearing, William Shakespeare

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
That thou consumest thyself in single life?
Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die
The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form of thee hast left behind
When every private widow well may keep
By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind
Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's waste hath in the world an end
And kept unused, the user so destroys it
No love toward others in that bosom sits
That on himself such murderous shame commits

Trivia about the song Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye by George Shearing

When was the song “Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye” released by George Shearing?
The song Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye was released in 1985, on the album “Music to Hear: 5 Songs from Shakespeare”.
Who composed the song “Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye” by George Shearing?
The song “Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye” by George Shearing was composed by George Shearing, William Shakespeare.

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