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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DAYBREAK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Day had awakened all things that be
Last Line: From the lamp's death to the morning ray.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: Day had awakened all things that be
Last Line: From the lamp's death to the morning ray.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
Day had awakened all things that be,
The lark, and the thrush, and the swallow free,
And the milkmaid's song, and the mower's scythe,
And the matin bell and the mountain bee:
Fireflies were quenched on the dewy corn,
Glowworms went out, on the river's brim,
Like lamps which a student forgets to trim:
The beetle forgot to wind his horn,
The crickets were still in the meadow and hill:
Like a flock of rooks at a farmer's gun,
Night's dreams and terrors, every one,
Fled from the brains which are its prey,
From the lamp's death to the morning ray.
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