Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Laura

Rose-cheek'd Laura, come;

Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's

Silent music, either other

Sweetly gracing.


Lovely forms do flow

From concent divinely framéd:

Heaven is music, and thy beauty's

Birth is heavenly.


These dull notes we sing

Discords need for helps to grace them;

Only beauty purely loving

Knows no discord;


But still moves delight,

Like clear springs renew'd by flowing,

Ever perfect, ever in them-

Selves eternal.

— Thomas Campion
1567?-1619   


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