Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DAYBREAK, by JOHN DOWLAND


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DAYBREAK, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, o sweet, and do not rise!
Last Line: And perish in their infancy.
Variant Title(s): Break Of Daye
Subject(s): Morning


STAY, O sweet and do not rise!
The light that shines comes from
thine eyes;
The day breaks not: it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay! or else my joys will die
And perish in their infancy.





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