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
accents fall flying follow haste sad
Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.
dishonest heart life man whose
The man of life upright,/ Whose guiltless heart is free/ From all dishonest deeds/ Or thought of vanity.
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.