by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
There is none, O none but you
Language: English
There is none, O none but you, That from mee estrange your sight, Whom mine eyes affect to view Or chained eares heare with delight. Other beauties others moue, In you I all graces find ; Such is the effect of loue, To make them happy that are kinde. Women in fraile beauty trust, Onely seeme you faire to mee ; Yet proue truely kinde and iust, For that may not dissembled be. Sweet, afford me then your sight, That, suruaying all your lookes, Endlesse volumes I may write And fill the world with enuyed bookes : Which when after ages view, All shall wonder and despaire, Woman to finde man so true, Or man a woman halfe so faire.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) [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), "There is none, O none but you", published c1613, from the collection Two Bookes of Ayres - The Second Booke, no. 13. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-16
Line count: 20
Word count: 117