Now winter nights enlarge

Now winter nights enlarge
   The 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]1 amaze
   With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
   Shall wait on honey Love,
While youthful Revels, [Masques]2, and Courtly sights,
   Sleep's leaden spells remove.

This time doth well dispense
   With lover's 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]3.

by Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Thomas Campion (1567-1620) , "Now winter nights enlarge", published 1617.
by Dirk Hol , "Now winter nights enlarge", 1988, from Four songs on poems by Thomas Campion, no. 4.
by Brian Holmes (1946-) , "Now winter nights enlarge", from Six Ayres, no. 6.
by Philip Moore (1943-) , "Winter nights"

Date added to the website: 2004-08-14.

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