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by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)

Fire, fire, fire
Language: English 
Fire, fire, fire, fire,
Loe here I burne in such desire,
That all the treares that I can straine
Out of mine idle empty braine,
Cannot allay my scorching paine.
Come Trent and Humber, and fyre Thames,
Dread Ocean haste with alll thy streames:
And if you cannot quench my fire,
O drowne both me, and my desire.

Fire, fire, fire, fire,
There is no hell to my desire:
See all the Rivers backward flye,
And th'Ocean doth his waves deny,
For feare my heate should drink them dry.
Come heav'nly showres then pouring downe;
Come you that once the world did drowne:
Some then you spar'd, but now save all,
That else must burne, and with me fall.

Text Authorship:

  • by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620), first published 1617 [author's text not yet checked 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), "Fire, fire, fire", published 1617, from The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres - The Third Booke, no. 10. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]
  • by Dirk Hol , "Fire, fire, fire", 1988, from Four songs on poems by Thomas Campion, no. 1. [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this page: Linda Godry

This text was added to the website: 2006-12-09
Line count: 18
Word count: 119

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