Rose-Cheeked Laura
Rose-Cheeked Laura
Original Text
Thomas Campion, Observations in the Art of English Poesy (London, 1602.) Facs. edn. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. PE 1504 C3 1602A Robarts Library
1 Rose-cheek'd Laura, come,
2Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's
3Silent music, either other
4 Sweetly gracing.
5 Lovely forms do flow
7Heav'n is music, and thy beauty's
8 Birth is heavenly.
9 These dull notes we sing
10Discords need for helps to grace them;
11Only beauty purely loving
12 Knows no discord,
13But still moves delight,
14Like clear springs renew'd by flowing,
15Ever perfect, ever in them-
16 Selves eternal.
Notes
6] concent: harmony. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1602
RPO poem Editors
N. J. Endicott
RPO Edition
2RP.1.250; RPO 1996-2000.
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