Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHEN MORNING BREAKS, by EDWARD A. RALEIGH


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First Line: When morning breaks, what fortune waits for me?
Last Line: When morning breaks.
Subject(s): Morning


WHEN morning breaks, what fortune waits for me?
What ships shall rise from out the misty sea?
What friends shall clasp my hand in fond farewell?
What dream-wrought castles, as night's clouds dispel,
Shall raise their sun-kissed towers upon the lea?

To-night the moon-queen shining wide and free,
To-night the sighing breeze, the song, and thee;
But time is brief. What cometh, who can tell,
When morning breaks?

To-night, to-night, then happy let us be!
To-night, to-night, life's shadowy cares shall flee!
And though the dawn come in with chime or knell,
When night recalls its last bright sentinel,
I shall, at least, have memories left to me,
When morning breaks.





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