Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion
Thomas Campionwas an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 January 1567
dishonest heart life man whose
The man of life upright,/ Whose guiltless heart is free/ From all dishonest deeds/ Or thought of vanity.
accents fall flying follow haste sad
Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.
hath love pleasures summer tedious though winter
The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toys, / They shorten tedious nights.
either silent sing smoothly thou thy
Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.
spring delight
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
time wings dies
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.
summer wine winter
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.
fate mourning secret
Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.
wine prudent pharmacist
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.
flying shadow dying
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.
freedom women needs
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?
beauty love-is without-love
Beauty is not beauty without love.
weather sailing bent
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
shadow unhappy sun
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.