Author of Light - Thomas Campion; Poet, Composer & Physician
From Two Books of Ayres circa 1613 [*]
Rigel - Voice
Mary Lou - Modern Violin
Grier - Tenor Recorder
Bjorno - Alto Recorder & English 15 Course Arch Lute,
Luthier Robert Lundberg Portla…
Author of Light - Thomas Campion; Poet, Composer & Physician
From Two Books of Ayres circa 1613 [*]
Rigel - Voice
Mary Lou - Modern Violin
Grier - Tenor Recorder
Bjorno - Alto Recorder & English 15 Course Arch Lute,
Luthier Robert Lundberg Portland, Oregon
Author of light, revive my dying spright,
Redeeme it from the snares of all-confounding night.
Lord, light me to thy blessed way:
For, blinde with worldly vaine desires, I wander as a stray.
Sunne and Moone, Starres and underlights I see,
But all their glorious beames are mists and darknes, being compar'd to thee.
Fountaine of health, my soules deepe wounds recure,
Sweet showres of pitty raine, wash my uncleannesse pure.
One drop of thy desired grace
The faint and fading hart can raise, and in joyes bosome place.
Sinne and Death, Hell and tempting Fiends may rage;
But God his owne will guard, and their sharp paines and griefe in time asswage.
* In the nondramatic literature of the late Renaissance, Campion’s contribution holds an ambiguous position. He was neglected for almost two hundred years, but in the late 1800s he was rediscovered by A.H. Bullen, who published the first collected edition and started a resurgence of interest and admiration that would include T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. In The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) Eliot calls Campion, “except for Shakespeare ... the most accomplished master of rhymed lyric of his time.” His lyrics and the songs in which he presented them strongly reflect his period’s style, and Davis finds Campion’s influence in the works of such poets as Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Creeley.
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