Come, O come, my life's delight

Come, O come, my life's delight!
Let me not in languor pine:
Love loves no delay, thy sight
The more enjoyed, the more divine.
O come, and take from me
The pain of being deprived of thee.

Thou all sweetness dost enclose,
Like a little world of bliss:
Beauty guards thy looks: the rose
In them pure and eternal is.
Come then! and make thy flight
As swift to me as heavenly light!

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) , "Come, O come, my life's delight", published 1617.
by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) , "Come, o come, my life's delight", 1911-12? [SATB]
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Come, O come my life's delight", published 1922.
by Brian Holmes (1946-) , "Come, O come, my life's delight", from Six Ayres, no. 5.
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "My life's delight", op. 12 no. 2, from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, no. 2.

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