The Works of Thomas Campion Complete Songs, Masques, and Treatises with a Selection of the Latin Verse: Edited with an introduction and notes by Walter R. Davis |
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[Sweete, come againe]
Sweete, come againe;
Your happie sight, so much desir'd,
Since you from hence are now retir'd,
I seeke in vaine.
Stil must I mourn
And pine in longing paine,
Till you, my lives delight, againe
Vouchsafe your wisht returne.
Your happie sight, so much desir'd,
Since you from hence are now retir'd,
I seeke in vaine.
Stil must I mourn
And pine in longing paine,
Till you, my lives delight, againe
Vouchsafe your wisht returne.
If true desire,
Or faithfull vow of endles love,
Thy heart enflam'd may kindly move
With equall fire;
O then my joies,
So long destraught, shall rest,
Reposed soft in thy chast brest,
Exempt from all annoies.
Or faithfull vow of endles love,
Thy heart enflam'd may kindly move
With equall fire;
O then my joies,
So long destraught, shall rest,
Reposed soft in thy chast brest,
Exempt from all annoies.
You had the power
My wandring thoughts first to restraine,
You first did heare my love speake plaine,
A child before:
Now it is growne
Confirm'd, do you it keepe,
And let it safe in your bosome sleepe,
There ever made your owne.
My wandring thoughts first to restraine,
You first did heare my love speake plaine,
A child before:
Now it is growne
Confirm'd, do you it keepe,
And let it safe in your bosome sleepe,
There ever made your owne.
And till we meete,
Teach absence inward art to find,
Both to disturbe and please the mind.
Such thoughts are sweete,
And such remaine
In hearts whose flames are true;
Then such will I retaine, till you
To me returne againe.
Teach absence inward art to find,
Both to disturbe and please the mind.
Such thoughts are sweete,
And such remaine
In hearts whose flames are true;
Then such will I retaine, till you
To me returne againe.
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