Thomas Campion Quotes

• There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

  Thomas Campion

  Romantic, Girl, Eye

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• From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

  Thomas Campion

  Spring, Delight

  Thomas Campion, Joan Hart (1976). “Ayres & observations: selected poems of Thomas Campion”, Carcanet Pr

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

  Thomas Campion

  Time, Wings, Dies

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• 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.

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  Summer, Wine, Winter

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Men, Faults

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

  Thomas Campion

  Grief, Pride, Play

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Secret fates
  Guide our states
  Both in mirth and mourning.

  Thomas Campion

  Fate, Mourning, Secret

  Thomas Campion (1909). “Campion's Work”

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• A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

  Thomas Campion

  Wine, Prudent, Pharmacist

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• Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

  Thomas Campion

  Inspirational, Funny, Weather

  'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11

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• Thou shalt prove
  That beauty is no beauty without love.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Beauty, Prove

  Thomas Campion, Joan Hart (1976). “Ayres & observations: selected poems of Thomas Campion”, Carcanet Pr

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• If all would lead their lives in love like me,
  Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
  No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
  Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Moving, Sleep

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Wine, Cups

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

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  Shadow, Unhappy, Sun

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• Lost is our freedom
  When we submit to women so:
  Why do we need 'em
  When, in their best, they work our woe?

  Thomas Campion

  Freedom, Women, Needs

  Thomas Campion (1889). “The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion”

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• Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

  Thomas Campion

  Dance, Answers, Kind

  'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7

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• Fortune, honour, beauty, youth,
  Are but blossoms dying;
  Wanton pleasures, doting love,
  Are but shadows flying.

  Thomas Campion

  Flying, Shadow, Dying

  Joseph Haslewood, Edmund Bolton, Thomas Campion, George Gascoigne, Samuel Daniel (1815). “Ancient critical essays upon English poets and poesy”, p.14

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• Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

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  Night, Men, Please Me

  1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

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• Beauty is not beauty without love.

  Thomas Campion

  Beauty, Love Is, Without Love

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• My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

  Thomas Campion

  Sleep, Night, Light

  'A Book of Airs' (1601) no. 1; translation of Catullus 'Carmina' no. 5.

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• Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.

  Thomas Campion

  Mother, Maids, Dies

  1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

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• 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.

  Thomas Campion

  Men, Joy, Secret

  Thomas Campion (1907). “Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion”

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