Thomas Campion quotes
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“There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.”
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“From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : 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 CampionSource : 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.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : 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....”
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“Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!”
-- Thomas CampionSource : 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 CampionSource : Thomas Campion (1909). “Campion's Work”
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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 CampionSource : 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 CampionSource : Thomas Campion (1889). “The Works of Dr. Thomas Campion”
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“Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : Thomas Campion, Joan Hart (1976). “Ayres & observations: selected poems of Thomas Campion”, Carcanet Pr
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“Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : 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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“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 CampionSource : 'A Book of Airs' (1601) no. 1; translation of Catullus 'Carmina' no. 5.
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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 CampionSource : 'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7
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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 CampionSource : 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 CampionSource : Thomas Campion (1907). “Poetical Works (in English) 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 CampionSource : Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”
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“Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”
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“Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : 'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11
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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.”
-- Thomas CampionSource : 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
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