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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHEERLESS DAWN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: Prone in the prison of a lonely night
Last Line: And mother to awake me with a kiss.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: Prone in the prison of a lonely night
Last Line: And mother to awake me with a kiss.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
Prone in the prison of a lonely night,
At last the darkness quivers to my sight;
The Sheriff Sun has come to give release,
And far before him throws a crawling light.
Ah, were it not the Sheriff pacing slow,
Grimly to offer me the lesser woe
Of barren toil, and back to jail at night, --
But Mother, as in days of long ago!
In heaven, O God! I want no joy but this:
Once more to have the child's unconscious bliss,
The perfect sleep unvexed by any pain,
And Mother to awake me with a kiss.
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