#thomas campion

[sublime-acceptance]

small loves

frank o'hara, "steps" | thomas campion, "follow your saint" | weegee "[lovers on a park bench]" (c. 1940s) | rainer maria rilke, "the book of poverty and death III.1" | brassaï, "couple d'amoureux dans un petit café, quartier italie" (c. 1932) | margaret atwood, "variation on the word sleep"

[lesser-known-composers]

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) - Oft Have I Sighed ·

Michael Chance · Nigel North · Rachel Elliott

[llovelymoonn]

One about finding the love of your life💘

amal el-mohtar & max gladstone this is how you lose the time war \\ sandra spyrou love of my life \\ marie claire china 2019 head over heels for you \\ thomas campion my life’s delight \\ unknown author love me little, love me long \\ anna mcneil momento o \\ frederic belaubre the lovers es4 \\ jutta mueller young bliss \\ beyonce love on top \\ heather goodwind the kiss seris 32, #2 \\ frederic belaubre autumnal sketch k12

kofi

[mvaljean525]

There is a garden in her face   Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place,   Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:      There cherries grow which none may buy      Till “Cherry-ripe” themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose   Of orient pearl a double row, Which when her lovely laughter shows,   They look like rose-buds filled with snow;      Yet them no peer nor prince can buy      Till “Cherry-ripe” themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still;   Her brows like bended bows do stand, Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill   All that attempt with eye or hand      Those sacred cherries to come nigh,      Till “Cherry-ripe” themselves do cry.

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Cherry-Ripe

Thomas Campion  1567-1620

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Graphic - Pablo Barba  (B.1985)

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[blackcurranthurricane]

So, Penguin is my go to publisher for classics, because their notes are undeniably the very best. This poem was referenced in the notes of 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' by (the magnificent) Thomas Hardy ( Reprinted 2003, Introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet).

Angel references Tess's smile with the old Elizabethan proverb of "Roses filled with snow"( Chapter XXIV).

I think I'm in love with this book (and maybe with Angel).

[poemoftheday]

Poem of the Day 4 March 2021

Follow Thy Fair Sun | BY THOMAS CAMPION Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow, Though thou be black as night And she made all of light, Yet follow thy fair sun unhappy shadow.

Follow her whose light thy light depriveth, Though here thou liv’st disgraced, And she in heaven is placed, Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth.

Follow those pure beams whose beauty burneth, That so have scorched thee, As thou still black must be, Till Her kind beams thy black to brightness turneth.

Follow her while yet her glory shineth, There comes a luckless night, That will dim all her light, And this the black unhappy shade divineth.

Follow still since so thy fates ordained, The Sun must have his shade, Till both at once do fade, The Sun still proved, the shadow still disdained.

[jem-in-eyee]

Portrait of Thomas Campion on one of his instruments/‘Cherry ripe’ by Thomas Campion (1567-1620), defining the later Elizabethan lyrical style as a whole.