by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Rose cheek'd Laura, come Matches original text
        Language: English 
        
        
        
        
          Rose cheek'd Laura, come,
Sing thou sweetly with thy beauty's 
  Silent music, either other 
    Sweetly gracing.
  Lovely forms do flow
From concent divinely framed:
  Heaven is music, and thy beauty's 
     Birth is heav'nly.
  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.
Composition:
- Set to music  by Virgil Garnett Thomson (1896 - 1989), "Rose cheek'd Laura, come", from  Four songs to poems of Thomas Campion, no. 3
 
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), no title, first published 1602
 
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This text was added to the website: 2008-10-17 
Line count: 16
Word count: 72