Rose-Cheeked Laura

Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620



Rose-cheek'd Laura, come,
     Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's
     Silent music, either other
           Sweetly gracing.

       Lovely forms do flow
     From concent divinely framed;
     Heav'n is music, and thy beauty's
           Birth is heavenly.

       These dull notes we sing
   Discords need for helps to grace them;
   Only beauty purely loving
         Knows no discord,

   But still moves delight,
   Like clear springs renew'd by flowing,
   Ever perfect, ever in them-
         Selves eternal.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAXB XXAX BCBX XBCX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 508
Words 70
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion sometimes Campian was an English composer poet and physician Campion was first published as a poet in 1591 with five of his works appearing in an edition of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella more…

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