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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 34. HOPE AND FEAR, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If I hope, I pine; if I fear, I faint and die
Last Line: Must sing glad notes, or speak in happier verse.
Subject(s): Hope; Fear
First Line: If I hope, I pine; if I fear, I faint and die
Last Line: Must sing glad notes, or speak in happier verse.
Subject(s): Hope; Fear
IF I hope, I pine; if I fear, I faint and die;
So between hope and fear, I desperate lie,
Looking for joy to heaven, whence it should come:
But hope is blind; joy, deaf; and I am dumb
Yet I speak and cry; but, alas, with words of woe:
And joy conceives not them that murmur so.
He that the ears of joy will ever pierce,
Must sing glad notes, or speak in happier verse.
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