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by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)

Your faire lookes enflame my desire
Language: English 
Your faire lookes enflame my desire :
    Quench it againe with loue.
Stay, O striue not still to retire :
    Doe not in humane proue.
If loue may perswade,
    Loues pleasures, deere, denie not.
Heere is a silent grouie shade ;
    O tarrie then, and flie not.

Haue I seaz'd my heauenly delight
    In this vnhaunted groue ?
Time shall now her furie requite
    With the reuenge of loue.
Then come, sweetest, come,
    My lips with kisses gracing ;
Here let vs harbour all alone,
    Die, die in sweete embracing.

Will you now so timely depart,
    And not returne againe ?
Your sight lends such life to my hart
    That to depart is paine.
Feare yeelds no delay,
    Securenes helpeth pleasure :
Then, till the time giues safer stay,
    O farewell, my liues treasure.

Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), "Your faire lookes enflame my desire", published 1601, from the collection A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 17. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-11-16
Line count: 24
Word count: 127

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