English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 142. When to Her Lute Corinna Sings |
| | | Thomas Campion (1567(?)–1620) |
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| WHEN to her lute Corinna sings, | |
| Her voice revives the leaden strings, | |
| And doth in highest notes appear, | |
| As any challenged echo clear; | |
| But when she doth of mourning speak, | 5 |
| E’en with her sighs, the strings do break, | |
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| And as her lute doth live or die, | |
| Led by her passion, so must I: | |
| For when of pleasure she doth sing, | |
| My thoughts enjoy a sudden spring, | 10 |
| But if she doth of sorrow speak, | |
| E’en from my heart the strings do break. | |
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