Campionesque for Anna

When I lie down where I had lain with you
Some many nights, beloved, of the days
Lit by your sun, I dreamed all touch untrue,
Error my star and darkness all my ways
Till where I lie, I lie again with you.

Till where I go, I go again with you
Through all the days, beloved, and the nights
By your sweet self illumined, I can do
Not one good thing: not till your beauty lights
Me where I go, and go again with you.

Kit Wright, in the collection Bump-starting the Hearse.
(Actually I have changed `lay' to `lie', being a pedantic speaker of my own idiolect—in which `lay' is a transitive verb, as in: ``lay chicks not eggs''.)

Is `Campionesque' an allusion to Thomas Campion..? I should know...

It must be nice to love someone that much....
Monogamy may not be all the rage these days but there isn't a whole lot wrong with it. This poem is one of several works that speaks of the power of the love of one man for one woman.. as instance the Taj Mahal ... and the love-song John Lennon wrote to Yoko ... woman,... not his best work, but it came from the heart.
Curiously—such is my ignorance—it was only the other day that i learnt that Borodin was a 'cello player and his wife a fiddle player, so the nocturne from the D-maj quartet is a love duet: the melody is first played by the 'cello and the first fiddle responds....
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