by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Your faire lookes enflame my desire
Language: English
Your faire lookes enflame my desire :
Quench it againe with loue.
Stay, O striue not still to retire :
Doe not in humane proue.
If loue may perswade,
Loues pleasures, deere, denie not.
Heere is a silent grouie shade ;
O tarrie then, and flie not.
Haue I seaz'd my heauenly delight
In this vnhaunted groue ?
Time shall now her furie requite
With the reuenge of loue.
Then come, sweetest, come,
My lips with kisses gracing ;
Here let vs harbour all alone,
Die, die in sweete embracing.
Will you now so timely depart,
And not returne againe ?
Your sight lends such life to my hart
That to depart is paine.
Feare yeelds no delay,
Securenes helpeth pleasure :
Then, till the time giues safer stay,
O farewell, my liues treasure.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [author's text checked 1 time 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), "Your faire lookes enflame my desire", published 1601, from the collection A Booke of Ayres = A Book of Airs, no. 17. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-16
Line count: 24
Word count: 127