Featured Poem: Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion
This week's Featured Poem comes from Thomas Campion and captures that wintery atmosphere that's settled in over recent weeks, Now Winter Nights Enlarge.
A wintry poem for a wintry week.
Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music. Today we look at his poem Now Winter Nights Enlarge:
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
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