Thomas Campion

English composer, poet and physician

Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, and studied law in Gray's Inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music. A famous poem by Campion is There Is a Garden in Her Face.

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Works

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  • All lookes be pale
  • Author of Light, Revive My Dying Spright
  • Beauty Since You So Much Desire
  • Come Let Us Sound with Melodie the Praises
  • Come You Pretty False-Ey'd Wanton
  • Come, Cheerful Day
  • Faine Would I Wed
  • Faire If You Expect Admiring
  • Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Loe Here I Burne
  • Follow Thy Fair Sun
  • Her Rosie Cheekes, Her Ever Smiling Eyes
  • Here She Her Sacred Bower Adornes
  • I Care Not for These Ladies
  • If thou long’st so much to learn
  • It Fell on a Sommers Daie
  • Jacke and Jone They Thinke No Ill
  • Miserere My Maker
  • Most Sweet and Pleasing Are Thy Wayes O God
  • Move now with measured sound
  • My Sweetest Lesbia, Let Us Live and Love
  • Never Weather-Beaten Saile More Willing Bent to Shore
  • Now hath Flora robb'd her bowers
  • Oft Have I Sighed
  • Shall I Come Sweet Love to Thee?
  • Song for Voice, Lute & Bass Viol "Never Weather-Beaten Saile"
  • Song for Voice, Lute & Bass Viol "The Sypres Curten of the Night"
  • Sweet Exclude Me Not nor Be Divided
  • The Cypress Curtain of the Night
  • The Sypres Curten of the Night Is Spread
  • There Is None, O None but You
  • There Is a Garden in Her Face
  • Thou Joy'st Fond Boy, to Be by Many Loved
  • Though You Are Yoong and I Am Olde
  • Thrice tosse these oaken ashes
  • To Musicke Bent Is My Retyred Minde
  • Tune Thy Musicke to Thy Hart
  • Turne All Thy Thoughts to Eyes
  • Vayle Love Mine Eyes, O Hide from Me
  • What Is It That All Men Possesse, Among Themselves Conversing?
  • Woo Her and Win Her