There Is A Garden In Her Face

Thomas Campion 1567 – 1620



There is a garden in her face
     Where roses and white lilies grow;
     A heav'nly paradise is that place
     Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
           There cherries grow which none may buy,
           Till 'Cherry ripe' themselves do cry.

       Those cherries fairly do enclose
     Of orient pearl a double row,
     Which when her lovely laughter shows,
   They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
         Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
         Till 'Cherry ripe' themselves do cry.

     Her eyes like angels watch them still,
  Her brows like bended bows do stand,
   Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
   All that attempt with eye or hand
         Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
         Till 'Cherry ripe' themselves do cry.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ababcC dbdbcC efefcC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 755
Words 117
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion sometimes Campian was an English composer poet and physician Campion was first published as a poet in 1591 with five of his works appearing in an edition of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophel and Stella more…

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