Come Away, Come Sweet Love

Come away, come sweet love,

The golden morning breaks.

All the earth, all the air

of love and pleasure speaks:

Teach thine arms to embrace,

And sweet rosy lips to kiss,

And mix our souls in mutual bliss,

Eyes were made for beauty's grace,

Viewing, rueing love's long pain

Procur'd by beauty's rude disdain.

Come away, come sweet love,

The golden morning wastes,

While the sun from his sphere

his fiery arrows casts,

Making all the shadows fly,

Playing, Staying in the grove

To entertain the stealth of love.

Thither, sweet love, let us hie,

Flying, dying in desire

Wing'd with sweet hopes and heav'nly fire.

Come away, come sweet love,

Do not in vain adorn

Beauty's grace, that should rise

like to the naked morn.

Lilies on the riverside

And the fair Cyprian flow'rs newblown

Desire no beauties but their own,

Ornament is nurse of pride,

Pleasure, measure love's delight.

Haste then, sweet love, our wished flight!