English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 144. Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes |
| | | Thomas Campion (1567(?)–1620) |
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| TURN all thy thoughts to eyes, | |
| Turn all thy hairs to ears, | |
| Change all thy friends to spies | |
| And all thy joys to fears: | |
| True love will yet be free | 5 |
| In spite of jealousy. | |
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| Turn darkness into day, | |
| Conjectures into truth, | |
| Believe what th’ envious say, | |
| Let age interpret youth: | 10 |
| True love will yet be free | |
| In spite of jealousy. | |
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| Wrest every word and look, | |
| Rack every hidden thought, | |
| Or fish with golden hook; | 15 |
| True love cannot be caught: | |
| For that will still be free | |
| In spite of jealousy. | |
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