William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Hark, Hark! the Lark. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Hark, Hark! the Lark

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)


From “Cymbeline,” Act II. Scene 3 HARK, hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings,
And Phœbus ’gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin	5
To ope their golden eyes:
With everything that pretty bin, 1
My lady sweet, arise:
Arise, arise.

Note 1. Bin: is. [back]