Texts by T. Campion set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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• A Hymn in Praise of Neptune (Of Neptune's empire let us sing) - C. Stanford
• All lookes be pale, harts cold as stone - T. Campion
• All lookes be pale (All lookes be pale, harts cold as stone) - T. Campion
• Amaryllis (I care not for these Ladies) - C. Gibbs, J. Jeffreys, J. Raynor DUT FRI
• As by the streames of Babilon (As by the streames of Babilon) - T. Campion
• As by the streames of Babilon - T. Campion
• A secret loue or two I must confesse - T. Campion
• A secret love (A secret loue or two I must confesse) - T. Campion
• Author of light, revive my dying sprite DUT FRI - T. Campion
• Author of Light (Author of light, revive my dying sprite) - T. Campion DUT FRI
• Awake, awake, thou heavy sprite (Awake, awake! thou heavy sprite) - T. Campion GER
• Bang nach Musik, seufzt mein vereinsamt Herz (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) (Trostlied) -
• Bangnis (Schon will die Nacht den dunkeln Vorhang breiten) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) SPA
• Beauty is but a painted hell (Beauty is but a painted hell) - T. Campion, D. Hol
• Beauty is but a painted hell - T. Campion, D. Hol
• Beauty, since you so much desire (Beauty, since you so much desire) - T. Campion
• Beauty, since you so much desire - T. Campion
• Be thou then my Beauty named (Be thou then my Beauty named) - T. Campion, G. Peel
• Be thou then my Beauty named - T. Campion, G. Peel
• Bittgesuch (Feuer, das brennen soll, will, daß man's nährt) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten)
• Blame not my cheeks, though pale with loue they be (Blame not my cheeks, though pale with loue they be) - T. Campion
• Blame not my cheeks, though pale with loue they be - T. Campion
• Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day (Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day) - T. Campion
• Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day - T. Campion
• Breake now my heart and dye, Oh no, she may relent - T. Campion
• Breake now my heart and dye (Breake now my heart and dye, Oh no, she may relent) - T. Campion
• Bring away this Sacred Tree - T. Campion
• Cherry ripe (There is a garden in her face) - E. Moeran DUT
• Come a shore, come, merrie mates - T. Campion
• Come away, arm'd with loues delights (Come away, arm'd with loues delights) - T. Campion
• Come away, arm'd with loues delights - T. Campion
• Come, cheerful day, part of my life, to me - T. Campion
• Come, cheerful day (Come, cheerful day, part of my life, to me) - T. Campion
• Come, let vs sound with melody, the praises (Come, let vs sound with melody, the praises) - T. Campion
• Come, let vs sound with melody, the praises - T. Campion
• Come, my life's delight (Come, O come, my life's delight!) - W. Hurlstone FRE
• Come, O come my life's delight (Come, O come, my life's delight!) - T. Campion, R. Clarke, I. Gurney, B. Holmes, D. Lang, J. Raynor FRE
• Come, O come, my life's delight! FRE - T. Campion, R. Clarke, I. Gurney, B. Holmes, W. Hurlstone, D. Lang, R. Quilter, J. Raynor
• Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton (Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton) - T. Campion
• Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton - T. Campion
• Could my heart more tongues imploy (Could my heart more tongues imploy) - T. Campion
• Could my heart more tongues imploy - T. Campion
• Darf ich, Süße, bei dir sein (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) (Verstimmtes Ständchen) -
• Faine would I my loue disclose (Faine would I my loue disclose) - T. Campion
• Faine would I my loue disclose - T. Campion
• Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please mee - T. Campion
• Faine would I wed a faire yong man (Faine would I wed a faire yong man that day and night could please mee) - T. Campion
• Fair, if you expect admiring (Fair, if you expect admiring) - T. Campion
• Fair, if you expect admiring - T. Campion
• Feuer, das brennen soll, will, daß man's nährt (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) (Bittgesuch) -
• Fire, fire, fire, fire, loe here I burne in such desire
• Fire, fire, fire, fire - T. Campion, D. Hol
• Fire, fire, fire (Fire, fire, fire, fire) - T. Campion, D. Hol
• Fire that must flame is with apt fuel fed GER - T. Campion
• Fire that must flame (Fire that must flame is with apt fuel fed) - T. Campion GER
• Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe - T. Campion, T. Kroll, J. Raynor, V. Thomson
• Followe thy faire sunne (Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe) - T. Campion
• Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow - R. Samuel
• Follow thy fair sun (Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe) - T. Kroll, J. Raynor, V. Thomson
• Follow your saint follow with accents sweet - T. Campion, W. Davies, H. Procter-Gregg, V. Thomson
• Follow your saint (Follow your saint follow with accents sweet) - T. Campion, W. Davies, H. Procter-Gregg, V. Thomson
• Gebet (Wach auf, wach auf aus deinem Nichts) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten)
• Give beauty all her right (Give Beauty all her right!) - T. Campion
• Give Beauty all her right! - T. Campion
• Goe, happy man, like th'Euening Starre - T. Campion
• Good men, shew, if you can tell (Good men, shew, if you can tell) - T. Campion
• Good men, shew, if you can tell - T. Campion
• Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage - T. Campion
• Harden now thy tyred hart (Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage) - T. Campion
• Harke all you ladies that do sleep - T. Campion
• Harke all you ladies (Harke all you ladies that do sleep) - T. Campion
• Heart's music (Tune thy Musicke to thy hart) - R. Vaughan Williams
• Her rosie cheekes, her euer smiling eyes (Her rosie cheekes, her euer smiling eyes) - T. Campion
• Her rosie cheekes, her euer smiling eyes - T. Campion
• How eas'ly wert thou chained (How eas'ly wert thou chained) - T. Campion
• How eas'ly wert thou chained - T. Campion
• I care not for these Ladies (I care not for these Ladies) - T. Campion, B. Holmes DUT FRI
• I care not for these Ladies DUT FRI - T. Campion, C. Gibbs, B. Holmes, J. Jeffreys, J. Raynor
• I care not for those Ladies DUT FRI
• If thou long'st so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love - T. Campion
• If thou long'st so much to learn (If thou long'st so much to learn, sweet boy, what 'tis to love) - T. Campion
• I must complain, yet doe enioy my Loue - T. Campion
• I must complain (I must complain, yet doe enioy my Loue) - T. Campion
• It fell on a sommers day (It fell on a sommers day) - T. Campion SPA
• It fell on a sommers day SPA - T. Campion
• Jack and Jone (Jacke and Jone they think no ill) - T. Campion
• Jacke and Jone they think no ill - T. Campion
• Kinde are her answeres (Kinde are her answeres) - T. Campion
• Kinde are her answeres - T. Campion
• Leaue prolonging thy distresse (Leaue prolonging thy distresse) - T. Campion
• Leaue prolonging thy distresse - T. Campion
• Leave prolonging thy distress
• Lift vp to heau'n, sad wretch, thy heauy spright - T. Campion
• Lift vp to heau'n, sad wretch (Lift vp to heau'n, sad wretch, thy heauy spright) - T. Campion
• Lighten, heauy heart, thy spright (Lighten, heauy heart, thy spright) - T. Campion
• Lighten, heauy heart, thy spright - T. Campion
• Loe, when backe mine eye (Loe, when backe mine eye) - T. Campion
• Loe, when backe mine eye - T. Campion
• Loue me or not, loue her I must or dye (Loue me or not, loue her I must or dye) - T. Campion
• Loue me or not, loue her I must or dye - T. Campion
• Love me or not, love her I must or die
• Lo when back mine eye
• Maids are simple, some men say
• Männerstolz (Schön bist du nicht, bist du auch rot und weiß) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten)
• Maydes are simple, some men say (Maydes are simple, some men say) - T. Campion
• Maydes are simple, some men say - T. Campion
• Mistris, since you so much desire (Mistris, since you so much desire) - T. Campion
• Mistris, since you so much desire - T. Campion
• Most sweet and pleasing are thy wayes, O God - T. Campion
• Most sweet and pleasing are thy ways (Most sweet and pleasing are thy wayes, O God) - T. Campion
• My life's delight (Come, O come, my life's delight!) - R. Quilter FRE
• My loue hath vowd hee will forsake mee (My loue hath vowd hee will forsake mee) - T. Campion
• My loue hath vowd hee will forsake mee - T. Campion
• My love hath vowed he will forsake me
• My sweetest Lesbia, let vs liue and loue (My sweetest Lesbia, let vs liue and loue) - T. Campion
• My sweetest Lesbia, let vs liue and loue - T. Campion
• Neuer loue vnlesse you can (Neuer loue vnlesse you can) - T. Campion
• Neuer loue vnlesse you can - T. Campion
• Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore - E. Bunge, T. Campion, W. Davies, C. Parry, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Shephard, C. Wood
• Never weather-beaten sail (Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore) - E. Bunge, T. Campion, W. Davies, C. Parry, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Shephard, C. Wood
• Now winter nights enlarge (Now winter nights enlarge) - T. Campion, D. Hol, B. Holmes
• Now winter nights enlarge - G. Busby, T. Campion, D. Hol, B. Holmes, P. Moore
• O be still, be still, unquiet thoughts, and rest on love's adventer - P. Warlock
• O deare that I with thee might liue (O deare that I with thee might liue) - T. Campion
• O deare that I with thee might liue - T. Campion
• Of Neptune's empire let us sing - C. Stanford (A Hymn in Praise of Neptune)
• Oft have I sigh'd for him that hears me not - T. Campion, J. Raynor
• Oft have I sigh'd (Oft have I sigh'd for him that hears me not) - T. Campion, J. Raynor
• O sweet delight () - D. Hol [x]
• Out of my soules deapth to thee my cryes have sounded - T. Campion
• Out of my soules deapth (Out of my soules deapth to thee my cryes have sounded) - T. Campion
• O what vnhop't for sweet supply (O what vnhop't for sweet supply !) - T. Campion
• O what vnhop't for sweet supply ! - T. Campion
• Pin'd I am and like to die (Pin'd I am and like to die) - T. Campion
• Pin'd I am and like to die - T. Campion
• Rose cheek'd Laura, come (Rose cheek'd Laura, come) - T. Campion, I. Gurney, V. Thomson
• Rose cheek'd Laura, come - T. Campion, I. Gurney, V. Thomson
• Schön bist du nicht, bist du auch rot und weiß (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) (Männerstolz) -
• Schon will die Nacht den dunkeln Vorhang breiten (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) SPA (Bangnis) -
• Seeke the Lord, and in his wayes perseuer (Seeke the Lord, and in his wayes perseuer) - T. Campion
• Seeke the Lord, and in his wayes perseuer - T. Campion
• See where she flies enrag'd from me (See where she flies enrag'd from me) - T. Campion
• See where she flies enrag'd from me - T. Campion
• Shall I come, sweet love, to thee GER GER - T. Campion
• Shall I come, sweet love? (Shall I come, sweet love, to thee) - T. Campion GER GER
• Sieh mich, Herr: auch ich bin Dein! (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) (Tagruf) -
• Silent music (Rose cheek'd Laura, come) - I. Gurney
• Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet thy night as day shines clearely - T. Campion
• Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone (Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet thy night as day shines clearely) - T. Campion
• Sing a song of ioy (Sing a song of ioy) - T. Campion
• Sing a song of ioy - T. Campion
• Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me - T. Campion
• Sleepe, angry beauty (Sleepe, angry beauty, sleep, and feare not me) - T. Campion
• So many loues haue I neglected (So many loues haue I neglected) - T. Campion
• So many loues haue I neglected - T. Campion
• Song: Bring away this Sacred Tree (Bring away this Sacred Tree) - T. Campion
• Song: Come a shore, come, merrie mates (Come a shore, come, merrie mates) - T. Campion
• Song: Goe, happy man (Goe, happy man, like th'Euening Starre) - T. Campion
• Song: While dancing rests (While dancing rests, fit place to musicke graunting) - T. Campion
• So quicke, so hot, so mad is thy fond sute - T. Campion
• So quicke, so hot, so mad (So quicke, so hot, so mad is thy fond sute) - T. Campion
• Sun and Shadow (Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow) - R. Samuel
• Sweet, exclude mee not, nor be divided (Sweet, exclude mee not, nor be divided) - T. Campion
• Sweet, exclude mee not, nor be divided - T. Campion
• Tagruf (Sieh mich, Herr: auch ich bin Dein!) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten)
• The cypress curtain of the night is spread GER SPA - T. Campion
• The cypress curtain of the night (The cypress curtain of the night is spread) - T. Campion GER SPA
• The Lover's Maze (O be still, be still, unquiet thoughts, and rest on love's adventer) - P. Warlock
• The man of life upright (The man of life vpright) - T. Loevendie
• The man of life vpright, whose chearfull minde is free
• The man of life vpright, whose guiltlesse hart is free
• The man of life vpright (The man of life vpright) - T. Campion
• The man of life vpright (The man of life vpright) - T. Campion
• The man of life vpright - T. Campion, T. Loevendie
• The man of life vpright - T. Campion
• The peacefull westerne winde (The peacefull westerne winde) - T. Campion
• The peacefull westerne winde - T. Campion
• There is a garden in her face (There is a garden in her face) - R. Allison, G. Bush, T. Campion, B. Holmes, J. Ireland, E. Moeran, J. Raynor, V. Thomson DUT
• There is none, O none but you (There is none, O none but you) - T. Campion
• There is none, O none but you - T. Campion
• Thinke you to seduce me so with words that haue no meaning - W. Corkine
• Thinke you to seduce me so (Thinke you to seduce me so with words that haue no meaning) - W. Corkine
• Think'st thou to seduce me then with words that have no meaning? - T. Campion
• Think'st thou to seduce me then (Think'st thou to seduce me then with words that have no meaning?) - T. Campion
• Thou art not fair for all thy red and white GER - T. Campion, I. Gurney, N. Lanier
• Thou art not fair (Thou art not fair for all thy red and white) - T. Campion, I. Gurney, N. Lanier GER
• Though you are young and I am old (Though you are young and I am old) - T. Campion
• Though you are young and I am old - T. Campion
• Though your strangenesse frets my hart (Though your strangenesse frets my hart) - T. Campion
• Though your strangenesse frets my hart - T. Campion
• Thou ioy'st, fond boy, to be by many loued (Thou ioy'st, fond boy, to be by many loued) - T. Campion
• Thou ioy'st, fond boy, to be by many loued - T. Campion
• Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre - T. Campion, I. Gurney, B. Holmes, D. Steele
• Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes (Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre) - T. Campion
• Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air (Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre) - B. Holmes, D. Steele
• Thrice toss these oaken ashes up in air (Thrice tosse these Oaken ashes in the ayre) - I. Gurney
• To Corinna singing (When to her lute Corrina sings) - M. White
• To his sweet Lute Apollo sung the motions of the Spheares - T. Campion
• To his sweet Lute (To his sweet Lute Apollo sung the motions of the Spheares) - T. Campion
• To Musicke bent is my retyred minde (To Musicke bent is my retyred minde) - T. Campion GER
• To Musicke bent is my retyred minde GER - T. Campion
• Trostlied (Bang nach Musik, seufzt mein vereinsamt Herz) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten)
• Tune thy Musicke to thy hart (Tune thy Musicke to thy hart) - T. Campion
• Tune thy Musicke to thy hart - T. Campion, W. Davies, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Vaughan Williams
• Tune thy music to thy heart (Tune thy Musicke to thy hart) - W. Davies, H. Procter-Gregg
• Turn back you wanton flyer
• Turne all thy thoughts to eyes (Turne all thy thoughts to eyes) - T. Campion
• Turne all thy thoughts to eyes - T. Campion
• Turne backe you wanton flyer (Turne backe you wanton flyer) - T. Campion
• Turne backe you wanton flyer - T. Campion
• Vaile, loue, mine eyes : O hide from me - T. Campion
• Vaile, loue, mine eyes (Vaile, loue, mine eyes : O hide from me) - T. Campion
• Vaine men, whose follies make a God of Loue (Vaine men, whose follies make a God of Loue) - T. Campion
• Vaine men, whose follies make a God of Loue - T. Campion
• Verstimmtes Ständchen (Darf ich, Süße, bei dir sein) (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten)
• View mee, Lord, a worke of thine (View mee, Lord, a worke of thine) - T. Campion GER
• View mee, Lord, a worke of thine GER - T. Campion
• Wach auf, wach auf aus deinem Nichts (from Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten) (Gebet) -
• What harvest halfe so sweet is (What harvest halfe so sweet is) - T. Campion
• What harvest halfe so sweet is - T. Campion
• What if a day, or a month, or a yeare? (What if a day, or a month, or a yeare) - J. Dowland [misattributed] ITA (Text: Anonymous)
• What if a day, or a month, or a yeare [misattributed] ITA - J. Dowland (Text: Anonymous)
• What is a day, what is a yeere? (What is a day, what is a yeere?) - P. Rosseter
• What is a day, what is a yeere? - P. Rosseter
• What is it all that men possesse, among themselues conuersing ? - T. Campion
• What is it all that men possesse (What is it all that men possesse, among themselues conuersing ?) - T. Campion
• What then is loue but mourning? (What then is loue but mourning?) - P. Rosseter
• What then is loue but mourning? - J. Raynor, P. Rosseter
• What then is Love? (What then is loue but mourning?) - J. Raynor
• When Laura smiles her sight reuiues both night and day SPA - P. Rosseter
• When Laura smiles (When Laura smiles her sight reuiues both night and day) - P. Rosseter SPA
• When the God of merrie loue (When the God of merrie loue) - T. Campion
• When the God of merrie loue - T. Campion
• When thou must home to shades of under ground - T. Campion
• When thou must home (When thou must home to shades of under ground) - T. Campion
• When to her lute Corinna sings (When to her lute Corrina sings) - E. Diemer, J. Raynor
• When to her lute Corrina sings (When to her lute Corrina sings) - T. Campion, B. Holmes
• When to her lute Corrina sings - T. Campion, E. Diemer, B. Holmes, J. Raynor, M. White
• Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning? - T. Campion
• Where are all thy beauties now (Where are all thy beauties now, all harts enchayning?) - T. Campion
• Where shall I refuge seeke, if you refuse mee ? - T. Campion
• Where shall I refuge seeke (Where shall I refuge seeke, if you refuse mee ?) - T. Campion
• Where shee her sacred bowre adornes (Where shee her sacred bowre adornes) - T. Campion
• Where shee her sacred bowre adornes - T. Campion
• While dancing rests, fit place to musicke graunting - T. Campion
• Winter nights (Now winter nights enlarge) - G. Busby, P. Moore
• Wise men patience never want (Wise men patience never want) - T. Campion
• Wise men patience never want - T. Campion
• Yet once again, let us our measures move (Yet once again, let us our measures move) - E. Rubbra
• Yet once again, let us our measures move - E. Rubbra
• Young and simple though I am (Young and simple though I am) - T. Campion, N. Lanier
• Young and simple though I am - T. Campion, N. Lanier
• Your faire lookes enflame my desire (Your faire lookes enflame my desire) - T. Campion
• Your faire lookes enflame my desire - T. Campion

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