Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DAWN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY


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First Line: I am a confidant at dawn
Last Line: The intimacies of those hours.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


I AM a confidant at Dawn,
An intimate of waking things,
A lover of pale, lucent skies,
A listener for stirring wings.

I am no prisoner of Sleep
In that dim hour when the Dawn
Bends over and confides in me
After her lover, Night, is gone.

Strange are the things Dawn tells to me—
Pallid, with tear-dew on her cheeks;
I may not tell what secret things
She whispers to me when she speaks.

Only the sinking stars ... the late
Wan, wastrel moon ... the waking flowers ...
And birds share with the Dawn and me
The intimacies of those hours.





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