Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night as well as the brightest day hath her delight Last Line: That retains so sweet a friend. Variant Title(s): A Song Of Three Voices With Divers Instruments Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
1. Night as well as brightest day hath her delight. Let us then with mirth and music deck the night, Never did glad day such store Of joy to night bequeath: Her stars then adore, Both in Heaven, and here beneath. 2. Love and beauty, mirth and music yield true joys, Though the cynics in their folly count them toys, Raise your spirits ne'er so high, They will be apt to fall: None brave thoughts envy, Who had e'er brave thoughts at all. 3. Joy is the sweet friend of life, the nurse of blood, Patron of all health, and fountain of all good: Never may joy hence depart, But all your thoughts attend; Nought can hurt the heart, That retains so sweet a friend. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
|