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
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.
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.
time wings dies
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.