| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Thomas Campion. 1567?–1619 |
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| 174. Winter Nights |
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| NOW winter nights enlarge | |
| The number of their hours, | |
| And clouds their storms discharge | |
| Upon the airy towers. | |
| Let now the chimneys blaze | 5 |
| And cups o'erflow with wine; | |
| Let well-tuned words amaze | |
| With harmony divine. | |
| Now yellow waxen lights | |
| Shall wait on honey love, | 10 |
| While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights | |
| Sleep's leaden spells remove. | |
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| This time doth well dispense | |
| With lovers' long discourse; | |
| Much speech hath some defence, | 15 |
| Though beauty no remorse. | |
| All do not all things well; | |
| Some measures comely tread, | |
| Some knotted riddles tell, | |
| Some poems smoothly read. | 20 |
| The summer hath his joys, | |
| And winter his delights; | |
| Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, | |
| They shorten tedious nights. | |
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