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Lifetime: 1567 - 1620 Passed: ≈ 404 years ago

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Thomas Campion

Books by Thomas Campion

Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air Cover image

Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air

Poetry Music
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Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air is a poem by Thomas Campion, an English composer, poet, and physician. The poem is a lament for the loss of love, and it is set to music for solo voice and lute. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter, and i...