John Dowland Come Away Come Sweet Love Lyrics

Come Away Come Sweet Love Lyrics

Come away , come sweet love 

 The golden morning breaks. 

 All the earth, all the air, 

 Of love and pleasure speaks: 

 Teach thine arms then 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 spere, 

 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 river's side, 

 And fair 

 Cyprian 

 Flow'rs new-blown. 

 Desire no beauties but their own. 

 Ornament is nurse of pride, 

 Pleasure 

 Measure 

 Love's delight: 

 Haste then sweet love our wished flight