by
Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Come, O come, my life's delight!
Language: English
Come, O come, my life's delight!
Let me not in languor pine:
Love loves no delay, thy sight
The more enjoyed, the more divine.
O come, and take from me
The pain of being deprived of thee.
Thou all sweetness dost enclose,
Like a little world of bliss:
Beauty guards thy looks: the rose
In them pure and eternal is.
Come then! and make thy flight
As swift to me as heavenly light!
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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), "Come, O come, my life's delight", published 1617, from The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres - The Third Booke, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), "Come, o come, my life's delight", 1911-12? [ SATB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Come, O come my life's delight", 1921, published 1922 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "Come, O come, my life's delight", from Six Ayres, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (1876 - 1906), "Come, my life's delight ", 1900, published 1902 [ baritone and piano ], from Four Songs [for baritone], no. 3, London, Edwin Ashdown [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Lang (b. 1957), "Come, o Come, my life's delight", 2022 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "My life's delight", op. 12 no. 2 (1907), published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, no. 2, London, Boosey [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight", op. 176 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight", op. 413 (1953) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight", op. 522 (1958) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight", op. 564 (1960) [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Viens, oh viens, délice de ma vie", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 73
Viens, oh viens, délice de ma vie
Language: French (Français) after the English
Viens, oh viens, délice de ma vie !
Ne me laisse pas dépérir dans la langueur :
L'amour n'aime aucun retard, ta vue
La plus appréciée, la plus divine.
Oh viens, et prends-moi
La douleur d'être privée de toi.
Tu renfermes toute la douceur,
Comme un petit monde de bonheur :
La beauté garde tes regards : la rose
En eux est pure et éternelle.
Viens alors ! et rends ton vol
Aussi doux pour moi que la lumière céleste !
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in English by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), first published 1617
This text was added to the website: 2015-08-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 75