Living

Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day

by Thomas Heywood d. 1649?

From The Golden Treasury, ed. F. T. Palgrave (1861)

Living

Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day,
With night we banish sorrow;
Sweet air blow soft, mount larks aloft
To give my Love good-morrow!
Wings from the wind to please her mind,
Notes from the lark I'll borrow;
Bird, prune thy wing, nightingale sing,
To give my Love good-morrow;
To give my Love good-morrow
Notes from them both I'll borrow.

Wake from thy nest, Robin-redbreast!
Sing, birds, in every furrow;
And from each hill, let music shrill
Give my fair Love good-morrow!
Blackbird and thrush in every bush,
Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow!
You pretty elves, amongst yourselves
Sing my fair Love good-morrow;
To give my Love good-morrow
Sing birds, in every furrow!

MLA

Heywood, Thomas. “Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heywood/0/.

Chicago

Heywood, Thomas. “Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heywood/0/.

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