Essential Campion

by Thomas Campion

Book by Campion, Thomas

79 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1988

About the author

Thomas Campion (aka Campian) was an English poet, composer, and physician.

Reviews

[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

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