Love
Break of Day
From The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), ed. A. T. Quiller-Couch
Love
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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MLA
Donne, John. “Break of Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/donne/215/.
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Donne, John. “Break of Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/donne/215/.
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