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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNRISE; A SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI
First Line: A sudden trembling through the star's repose
Last Line: Like the gold centre of the rose's heart.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: A sudden trembling through the star's repose
Last Line: Like the gold centre of the rose's heart.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
A SUDDEN trembling through the star's repose,
A thrill of light pulsing at Night's dark breast,
Till Dawn's dim promise is made manifest—
Pale, like the leaves around a folded rose.
All the wan stars swarm back and melt as those
Low, pallid lights rise seething, unsuppressed,
Stirred like the white foam on a green wave's crest,
Till all the sky is like a budding rose.
But the red bar of light that throbs and glows
Breaks of a sudden, and the cloud-flakes start,
Curling with their faint, pink-flushed rims apart,
Like the dropped petals of a full-blown rose,
Till the sun springs up where the skies unclose
Like the gold centre of the rose's heart.
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