Thomas Campion Quotes

Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music. Wikipedia

✵ 12. February 1567 – 1. March 1620

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Famous Thomas Campion Quotes

“Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev'ning beams are set?”

Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee?

“The man whose silent days
In harmless joys are spent,
Whom hopes cannot delude,
Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towers
Nor armour for defence,
Nor secret vaults to fly
From thunder's violence.”

The Man of Life Upright

“I care not for these ladies,
That must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis,
The wanton country maid.
Nature art disdaineth;
Her beauty is her own.”

I Care Not for These Ladies (1601), reported in Arthur Henry Bullen, More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (1888), p. 48.

“Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
That she in peace may wake and pity me.”

Sleep, Angry Beauty

“There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
There cherries grow that none may buy,
Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.”

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