Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Campion. 1567?1619169. Laura
ROSE-CHEEK’D Laura, come; | |
Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty’s | |
Silent music, either other | |
Sweetly gracing. | |
Lovely forms do flow | 5 |
From concent divinely framèd: | |
Heaven is music, and thy beauty’s | |
Birth is heavenly. | |
These dull notes we sing | |
Discords need for helps to grace them; | 10 |
Only beauty purely loving | |
Knows no discord; | |
But still moves delight, | |
Like clear springs renew’d by flowing, | |
Ever perfect, ever in them- | 15 |
selves eternal. |