Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DAWN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS


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First Line: A sigh sweeps the tall lush grasses
Last Line: Fulfilling the dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


A sigh sweeps the tall lush grasses;
The night wind calls as it passes;
No sound of the bee nor cricket;
Faint bird-notes trill in the thicket.
And see! On the gray cloud's lining
The day in Night's arms reclining.

Day dawn, gay dawn
Creeping up across the lawn,
Lighting up my window pane,
Rousing me from sleep,
Chasing shapes of night away,
Presaging the blaze of day,
Greets me out in field and lane
Where soft breezes sweep.

The hush of the night has been broken;
The fiat for light again spoken;
And out from soft nebulous veiling
My day in full glory comes trailing;
Fulfilling the dawn.





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