Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion (sometimes Campian) (February 12, 1567 – March 1, 1620) was an English composer, poet and physician.

Quotes

• I care not for these ladies,
  That must be wooed and prayed;
  Give me kind Amaryllis,
  The wanton country maid.
  Nature art disdaineth;
  Her beauty is her own.
  • I Care Not for These Ladies (1601), reported in Arthur Henry Bullen, More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (1888), p. 48.

• Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
  That she in peace may wake and pity me.
  • Sleep, Angry Beauty

• Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
  When the ev'ning beams are set?
  • Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee?

• The man whose silent days
  In harmless joys are spent,
  Whom hopes cannot delude,
  Nor sorrow discontent:

  That man needs neither towers
  Nor armour for defence,
  Nor secret vaults to fly
  From thunder's violence.
  

  • The Man of Life Upright

• There is a garden in her face
  Where roses and white lilies blow;
  A heavenly paradise is that place,
  Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
  There cherries grow that none may buy,
  Till Cherry-Ripe themselves do cry.
  • Cherry Ripe