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
wine prudent pharmacist
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.
love men faults
Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!
love wine cups
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine....
fate mourning secret
Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.
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.
time wings dies
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.
spring delight
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
girl eye garden
There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
love beauty prove
Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.
men joy secret
The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
mother maids dies
Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.