Jack and Joan (Thomas Campion Poems)
Jack and Joan they think no ill,But loving live, and merry still;Do their week-days' work, and prayDevoutly on the holy ...
Thomas Campion Poems (19 Poems)
Devotion i (Thomas Campion Poems)
FOLLOW thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Though thou be black as night, And she made all of light,Yet follow thy fair sun, ...
Integer Vitae (Thomas Campion Poems)
THE man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is freeFrom all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity;The man whose silent days In harmless ...
Cherry-Ripe (Thomas Campion Poems)
THERE is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits ...
Amaryllis (Thomas Campion Poems)
I care not for these ladies that must be wooed and prayed;Give me kind Amaryllis, the wanton country maid.Nature Art ...
My Sweetest Lesbia (Thomas Campion Poems)
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love,And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,Let us not weigh them. Heaven's ...
Follow Thy Fair Sun (Thomas Campion Poems)
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow;Though thou be black as night,And she made all of light,Yet follow thy fair sun, ...
Now Winter Nights Enlarge (Thomas Campion Poems)
Now winter nights enlargeThis number of their hours;And clouds their storms dischargeUpon the airy towers.Let now the chimneys blazeAnd cups ...
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune (Thomas Campion Poems)
OF Neptune's empire let us sing,At whose command the waves obey;To whom the rivers tribute pay,Down the high mountains sliding:To ...
Fain would I wed (Thomas Campion Poems)
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me,When my mind or body grieved, ...
Follow Your Saint (Thomas Campion Poems)
1 Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet;2 Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.3 There, wrapp'd in ...
Devotion ii (Thomas Campion Poems)
FOLLOW your saint, follow with accents sweet!Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet!There, wrapt in cloud of sorrow, ...
Laura (Thomas Campion Poems)
ROSE-CHEEK'D Laura, come;Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty'sSilent music, either other Sweetly gracing. Lovely forms do flowFrom concent divinely framed:Heaven is music, ...
The Measure of Beauty (Thomas Campion Poems)
Give Beauty all her right,She's not to one form tied;Each shape yields fair delight,Where her perfections bide:Helen, I grant, might ...
The Charm (Thomas Campion Poems)
Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air,Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chair,Then thrice three times tie up ...
Rose-Cheeked Laura (Thomas Campion Poems)
Rose-cheek'd Laura, come,Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty'sSilent music, either otherSweetly gracing.Lovely forms do flowFrom concent divinely framed;Heav'n is music, ...
Kind are her answers, (Thomas Campion Poems)
Kind are her answers,But her performance keeps no day;Breaks time, as dancersFrom their own music when they stray.All her free ...
O come quickly! (Thomas Campion Poems)
NEVER weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more,Than my wearied sprite now longs to ...
Corinna (Thomas Campion Poems)
When to her lute Corinna sings,Her voice revives the leaden strings,And doth in highest notes appearAs any challenged echo clear.But ...