Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet;
    Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.
    There, wrapp'd in cloud of sorrow, pity move,
    And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love:
    But if she scorns my never-ceasing pain,
    Then burst with sighing in her sight and ne'er return again.
      All that I sung still to her praise did tend,
    Still she was first; still she my songs did end;
    Yet she my love and music both doth fly,
   The music that her echo is and beauty's sympathy.
   Then let my notes pursue her scornful flight:
   It shall suffice that they were breath'd and died for her delight.
Back to Thomas Campion
            Get a free collection of Classic Poetry ↓
            
            
            
            
            
        
        
    



 
                      
			
To be able to leave a comment here you must be registered. Log in or Sign up.