Thomas Campion

My Life’s Delight

Come, O come, my life’s delight,

Let me not in languor pine!

Love loves no delay; thy sight,

The more enjoyed, the more divine:

O 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.