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

 § Author § 

Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)

(Also see this author's vocal compositions.)

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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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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