Love

Drinking on a rainy day

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Occasional Poems

Love

Oh: 'tis a rainy drinking day!
Come let it pow're
Weel drink these clouds all drie away
Suck every show'r
The envious Earth shal not drink all, for we
Our plants wil water too aswel as she.
The clouds that fatness drop from heav'n
Descend to us
Ev'n to invite us reach them to enliven
Our spirits thus:
Then sink or swim, weel moisten thirsty care,
And though the weather's foul, weel drink it fair.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “Drinking on a rainy day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/60/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “Drinking on a rainy day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/60/.

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