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THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23 by THOMAS CAMPION

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME, OH, COME, MY LIFE'S DELIGHT
Last Line: AS SWIFT TO ME AS HEAVENLY LIGHT!
Subject(s): COURTSHIP; DESIRE; LOVE; SEDUCTION;

Come, oh, come, my life's delight,
Let me not in languor pine!
Love loves no delay;
The more enjoyed the more divine:
Oh, come, and take from me
The pain of being deprived of thee!
Thou all sweetness dost enclose
Like a little world of bliss.
Beauty guards thy looks: the rose
In them pure and eternal is.
Come then, and make thy flight
As swift to me as heavenly light!




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