| 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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| 169. Laura |
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| ROSE-CHEEK'D Laura, come; | |
| Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's | |
| Silent music, either other | |
| Sweetly gracing. | |
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| Lovely forms do flow | 5 |
| From concent divinely framèd: | |
| Heaven is music, and thy beauty's | |
| Birth is heavenly. | |
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| These dull notes we sing | |
| Discords need for helps to grace them; | 10 |
| Only beauty purely loving | |
| Knows no discord; | |
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| But still moves delight, | |
| Like clear springs renew'd by flowing, | |
| Ever perfect, ever in them- | 15 |
| selves eternal. | |
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