"Hark, hark! the lark." William Shakespeare (1564-1616). VI. Animate Nature. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. V. Nature

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904.

VI. Animate Nature

“Hark, hark! the lark”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)


From “Cymbeline,” Act II. Sc. 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,
My lady sweet, arise;
Arise, arise!