Now Winter Nights Enlarge Poem by Thomas Campion

Now Winter Nights Enlarge

Rating: 3.0


Now winter nights enlarge
This number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o'erflow with wine,
Let well-tuned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep's leaden spells remove.

This time doth well dispense
With lovers' long discourse;
Much speech hath some defense,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well:
Some measures comely tread,
Some knotted riddles tell,
Some poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys
They shorten tedious nights.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 04 January 2015

Those last two lines certainly blew through me like a winter wind- -ouch

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 02 January 2015

An awesome poem about winter and it is interesting and likes.

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G. Akanji Olaniyi 05 July 2015

Nicely constructed rhyming! ! !

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Edward Kofi Louis 05 July 2015

Nice work with the muse of winter.

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Margeret Downes-minger 05 July 2015

I like Campion. He has a way with words. nice verse this.

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Michael Morgan 05 July 2015

I don't think Campion has ever been under-rated, but the echolalic and brain-teasing effect of 'All do not all things well' is over the top. MM

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Chinedu Dike 05 July 2015

The summer hath his joys, and winter his delights. A well articulated piece of poetry insightfully penned with conviction. A lovely poem indeed. Thanks for sharing.

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