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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 4 A.M., by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What blandishments the world offers
Last Line: The breathing out, the breathing in
Subject(s): Dawn; Insomnia; Sleep; Waking


5:30 A.M, by RUTH SCHERMERHORN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only the birds are cheerful with the dawn
Last Line: Birds hop gayly on the rain-wet lawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


A BALLAD OF BATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a queen enchanted who may not laugh or weep
Last Line: Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face.
Subject(s): Dawn; England; Sunrise; English


A CHEERLESS DAWN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     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


A DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then another
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees; Sunrise


A DAWN IN SPRING, by JAMES CREESE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awake! Awake! From out the night mount higher
Last Line: Entices man to golden-fringed hills!
Subject(s): Dawn; Mythology; Sunrise


A LAKE SUNRISE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky
Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray.
Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds


A PAEAN TO THE DAWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dusky sky fades into blue
Last Line: I see the sunrise brighten!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Sunrise


A QUERY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the dawn that waked the bird
Last Line: Affirm for both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace
Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SUNRISE SONG, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands
Last Line: Blaze saladin still, with unforgiving fire?
Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Sunrise


A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is dim on the dark soft water
Last Line: And here to south of them swells the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dreams; Seasons; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Fall; Sunrise; Nightmares; Swimmers


A TRUMPET BLAST, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale patricians, sunk in self-indulgence
Last Line: Demos dawning, and the darkness done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Trumpets; Sunrise


A WASTED VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Couldst thou not watch with me one hour? Behold
Last Line: Thou couldst not watch with me.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Moon; Night; Wakes; Sunrise; Paradise; Bedtime


A WINDY DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn was a dawn of splendor
Last Line: In a spatter of spiteful rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Prayer; Trees; Wind; Sunrise


A WINTER'S DAWN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the long and dreary night
Last Line: And the voice that calls from a by-gone year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Dawn; Winter; Sunrise


ABSOLUTION, by HARRY B. SHEFTEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweat streaks down my face
Last Line: Unsulied. Since I was lover %to the woman, I shall be %father to the child
Subject(s): Dawn


ADVENTURE, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Open it slowly
Last Line: In memory's eyes!
Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Memory; Morning; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


AGAIN DAWN, by LARRY EIGNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky dropped
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


ALARM CLOCKS, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm
Last Line: In many a high and dreary sleeping place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Time; Sunrise


ALCHEMY, by SARAH LITSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ask me to remember and all that I could tell
Last Line: And the dawn came riding like a cavalcade of fear.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


AS A DECADENT PASSES, by DONALD EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bid the dawn come; the moonlight is too pale
Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet.
Subject(s): Dawn; Farewell; Life; Moon; Sunrise; Parting


AS TIME WOULD HAVE IT, by BRUCE KEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As time goes, some hours intercede
Last Line: We are the subjects %and earth is our probation
Subject(s): Dawn


ASPIRATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the crestward-climbing pines
Variant Title(s): The Trumpet Of The Daw
Subject(s): Dawn


AT COCKCROW, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are gone out spark by spark
Last Line: The road that runs to thee.
Subject(s): Dawn; Worship; Sunrise


AT DAWN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the faubourg saint marceau
Last Line: Was perchance the sun-god phoebus?
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


AT DAWN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She only knew the birth and death
Last Line: As the grey dawn came in.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


AT DAWN A HAND POURS A GENESIS BLUE...', by LAURENCE VERRY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Does the only motto %run in your blood
Subject(s): Dawn; Hands


AT DAWN WITHE THE BLINDS RAISED, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How does faith come-like a hummingbird darting by
Last Line: And the best grass since last summer is right now
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Dawn; Faith; Summer


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the sunrise. Golden arrows
Last Line: And the town jerusalem.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Jerusalem; Love; Sunrise; Nightmares


AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings
Last Line: Arise, arise!
Variant Title(s): Song At Sunrise;song To Imogen
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Larks; Morning; Spring; Sunrise; Skylarks


BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE RESPONSES OF DAWN AND NIGHT, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
Last Line: -- the ivory horn of death.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Night; Sunrise; Dead, The; Bedtime


BEFORE DAWN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breath of the dawn, breath of the dawn
Last Line: Purify me.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Soul; Sunrise; Ocean


BEFORE DAWN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet life, if life were stronger
Last Line: But all have found him fair.
Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Soul; Sunrise


BETRAYAL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whom I shall kiss,' I heard a sunbeam say
Last Line: He kissed the dawn-star pale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Kisses; Sunrise


BIRD RAPTURES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunrise wakes the lark to sing
Last Line: Leave us to-night the nightingale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Sunrise


BLACK MADONNA GREETS A SUNRISE, BROAD & PARRISH, by NEHASSAIU DEGANNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buttocks hugged tight
Last Line: Is eve's lustral mirage
Subject(s): Dawn; Religion


BLUE AND DREARY DAWN, by NAGASE KIOKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dawn, a blue and dreary dawn
Last Line: All they had gone after deserted them forever
Subject(s): Dawn


BREAK OF DAY, by JOHN SHAW NEILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stars are pale
Subject(s): Dawn


BRINK-SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A note so near the dawn
Last Line: For day to bloom or night to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


BURNING DAWN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This day lies under glass
Last Line: Who was here and has gone
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


CELLACH'S POEM TO THE DAWN, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Welcome, pale morning
Subject(s): Dawn


CHINESE NIGHTINGALE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long before dawn your light
Last Line: You were at your trade.
Subject(s): Nightingales; Dawn


CHOICE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imperious time, I must prefer
Last Line: Auroral creeds embrace.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Night; Sky; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime


CLEAR SUMMER DAWN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eyeballs it with a quawk
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer


COCK-CROW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the wood of thoughts that grow by night
Last Line: The milkers lace their boots up at the farms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


COCK-CROWING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon my bed at early dawn
Last Line: And through the fields had sprinkled perfumed dew.
Subject(s): Dawn; Time; Sunrise


COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if in pain
Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks; Sunrise; Bedtime


COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The peacocks cry to each other, %as if in pain
Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks


COME ON YOUR SKY-BLUE WINGS, YE PAPHIAN DOVES, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And scornful bound away
Subject(s): Dawn; Doves


COME, O DAYSPRING, by RUTH FIORI POYNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, o dayspring, let your light
Last Line: Let me soar on angel's wings, %to dwell with you eternally
Subject(s): Dawn


CUP OF TEA AT DAWN, by DARCY BLAHUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something to be learned before dawn
Last Line: An offering to dawn
Subject(s): Dawn


DAVE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me write you a rune of a rhyme
Last Line: Toward the topmost heights, dave field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Rhyme; Youth; Sunrise; Nightmares


DAWN, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A faint wine border tints the sky
Last Line: And shatter every laggard star.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by NORBERT BRINKHAUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mighty surge of dawn disports
Last Line: Are his with eyes to see.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Green bud of dawn
Last Line: The seal of paradise.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the dark linked loveliness of lakes
Last Line: Shake off the dew that moment when he sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Thrushes; Sunrise


DAWN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the wind wove evil in the hills
Last Line: And christ walked clear-eyed, radiant through the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Thrushes; Sunrise


DAWN, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The windows in the passageways
Last Line: And brush their long black skirts %until they shine
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel, robed in spotless white
Last Line: Men saw the blush and called it dawn.
Subject(s): African Americans; Dawn; Negroes; American Blacks; Sunrise


DAWN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun rends the long veils of smoke, and the fogs
Last Line: Along the track of ancient unreality.
Subject(s): Dawn; London; Sunrise


DAWN, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A house roof and the star
Last Line: Where it was chipped long ago
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Presence; Time


DAWN, by WILLIAM FREELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the cool star-glimmer, night's dream of dawn
Last Line: To bathe in the solar surge of fire!
Subject(s): Animals; Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night was dark, though sometimes a faint star
Last Line: A blade of gold flashed on the horizon's rim.
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sunrise


DAWN, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I not praise the dawn?
Last Line: And match the sun's unflinching march of light.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by CAREL DE HASETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the first rays of sunlight
Last Line: Mocks in song %my fear of death
Subject(s): Dawn; Death


DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death
Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War


DAWN, by TOM HIBBARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun that chases the world
Last Line: O you to whom I wished happiness
Subject(s): Dawn; Happiness; Sun


DAWN, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft-toned clock upon the stair chimed three
Last Line: One crimson shaft of dawn sank thro' my room
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN, by VLADIMIR HOLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the hour when the priest goes to mass
Last Line: Where you must say it differently, quite differently
Subject(s): Dawn; Time


DAWN, by IBN MUQANA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn is rising bright and clear
Last Line: Prince of every faithful soul!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by PHILIPPE JACCOTTET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Might say a god has awakened
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN, by PHILIPPE JACCOTTET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hour when the moon mists over
Last Line: The comb and the hair
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trailing night's sand-sifted stars
Last Line: Bathe humanity—new-born!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Birth; Dawn; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sunrise


DAWN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The languorous thighs of the morning
Last Line: The women who forget they were ladies!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sleep; Women; Sunrise


DAWN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quiet miles of golden sky
Last Line: A little rose-bud of a song.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Light breathes its innocent first breath
Last Line: And one of grief's assured surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a confidant at dawn
Last Line: The intimacies of those hours.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To be %immortal
Last Line: The gray carrots, and the almost %maple rolling hills
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN, by CORA MIRANDA BAGGERLY OLDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn in san francisco
Last Line: Of wizardry send a sign!
Subject(s): Dawn; San Francisco; Sunrise


DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow out the candles, my little one
Last Line: O I am cold, -- cold.
Subject(s): Candles; Dawn; Death; Rivers; Sunrise; Dead, The


DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have kissed the summer dawn
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have kissed the summer dawn
Last Line: When I woke, it was noon
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I embraced the summer dawn
Last Line: When I awoke, it was noon
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams


DAWN, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O tender first cold flush of rose
Last Line: To fade like passing ships.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dream;s Transience


DAWN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still as the holy of holies breathes the vast
Last Line: My fire from theirs apart.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dawn I went down among the machines
Last Line: And as we swung toward santos our wake described a big arc glistening %on the unmoving sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Dawn; Sea Voyages


DAWN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young light trembles through the waking sky
Last Line: To smile away the hours and long to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sunrise; Dead, The


DAWN, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sigh sweeps the tall lush grasses
Last Line: Fulfilling the dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


DAWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ecstatic bird songs pound
Last Line: Songs cease.
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN (1), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far into the vast the mist grows dim
Last Line: Beyond the sun delivered from the gloom of night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, as from a silver horn
Last Line: A victim shadow lies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN (2), by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the cold waterfall, the flush of dawn gleams bright
Last Line: With all its splendid men, its loveliness
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love told a star the vision that beguiled
Last Line: His slumber; and the darkness, hearing, smiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN AMID SCOTCH FIRS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The furtive lights that herald dawn
Last Line: For one brief moment dazzlingly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dawn; Trees; Sunrise


DAWN AND DARK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God with his million cares
Last Line: Grew dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN AND DUSK - SAN DIEGO, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quick as the waking laughter of a child
Last Line: Against the night's dark breast.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; San Diego, California; Sunrise


DAWN AT KINLOCH, by LOUIS BRANDEIS WEHLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In poise on the unfathomable deep
Last Line: Unto itself the miracle of day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Sunrise


DAWN DECORATIONS, by EDITH HILL CARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the eastern hills
Last Line: Hanging over the river.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN DREAMS, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were there when I woke
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then another
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees


DAWN IN INISHTRAHULL, by DANIEL JAMES O'SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon shines on the isle of inishtrahull
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN IN MY GARDEN, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went into my garden at break of delight
Subject(s): Dawn; Gardens And Gardening


DAWN IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the first opal presage of the morn
Last Line: But bowed to allah.
Subject(s): Dawn; Deserts; Food & Eating; Islam; Sunrise


DAWN IN THE EVERGLADES, by HALLE W. WARLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day, while still the dawn denied the call
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Everglades, Florida


DAWN IS RISING, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dawn is rising, cleaner and brighter than any praise or curse
Last Line: Finally find their way out
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN ON MID-OCEAN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Veiled are the heavens, veiled the throne
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN ON THE HEADLAND, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn - and a magical stillness: on earth
Last Line: Of the thunder of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW), by LILLIAN ATCHERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My home is a suite on the third floor up
Last Line: May I walk with my fellowmen.
Subject(s): Dawn; Hotels; Sunrise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


DAWN ON THE IRISH COAST, by JOHN LOCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Th' anam tho' diah! But there it is
Subject(s): Dawn; Ireland


DAWN ON THE WILLAMETTE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the pale blue of the morning sky
Last Line: Shakes all the air with passion and desire
Subject(s): Dawn; Willamette River, Oregon


DAWN REVISITED, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine you wake up
Last Line: If you don't get up and see
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN REVISITED, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine you wake up
Last Line: Who's down there, frying those eggs, %if you don't get up and see
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWN SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like tears of lead
Last Line: The tiny bells of dawn %are tinkling through
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dawn; Grief; Tears; Time


DAWN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city lifts toward heaven from the continent of sleep
Last Line: And the footsteps of early workers are building the streets to the river
Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Urban Life; Sunrise


DAWN SONG, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: While the earth is dark and grey
Last Line: On the level light of dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dawn; Farewell; Sunrise; Parting


DAWN WINDS, by VERA NICOLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The valley lies in shadow - all silver grey with dew
Last Line: For they hear the glad reveille that the dawn winds blow.
Subject(s): Dawn; Wind; Sunrise


DAWN'S FIRST VOICE, by VIOLA MEYNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I awoke - perhaps too late?
Last Line: Of hope to a heart that breaks.
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Hope; Waking; Sunrise; Optimism


DAWN, NOON AND DEWFALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, noon and dewfall! Bluebird and robin
Last Line: And fiddle on the kitchen wall a-jes' a-eechin' fer me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Noon; Robins; Sunrise


DAWN, OR THE TWILIGHT CHORUS, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you hear the mixed, merry chatter
Last Line: The day's work has begun.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWN-JOY, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clean, clean as crisped water-cress
Last Line: My feet came close behind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAWNING, by HARRIETT G. HUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountain rises beyond fields of brindled cattle
Last Line: Spreads his arms toward heaven, %encompasses his world
Subject(s): Dawn


DAWNLIGHT ON THE SEA, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I kneel down the dawn is only breaking
Last Line: When we two walk together in the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Sunrise; Ocean


DAY, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is up at my window, and in the may
Last Line: Come. . . . I hear the liars about the city.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAY BREAKS, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What dost thou see, lone watcher on the tower
Last Line: "the plain is yet in shade, but day is near."
Subject(s): Dawn; Faith; Worship; Sunrise; Belief; Creed


DAYBREAK, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!
Last Line: Sun! Sun! Sun!
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by DANIEL HALPERN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind came up out of the sea
Last Line: "and said, ""not yet! In quiet lie."
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by HAZEL MAY OYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: All was dark, the city slumbered
Last Line: Spring is on her way.
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Spring; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by EMMA PEIRCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: White mist in the valley, a light on the hill
Last Line: With a star looking down on the pageant of morn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         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


DAYBREAK, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three years of night and nightmare, years of black
Last Line: And darkness but a wide and welcome bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a moon is flaming in the south
Last Line: Vitreous dawn before dawn!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAYBREAK, by ANNA STREETER WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now dawn comes filtering through the dark
Last Line: Behold, another day is here!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAYBREAK (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What was thy dream, sweet morning? For, behold
Last Line: Like bubbles, vanish on the treacherous strand?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAYBREAK (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast not looked on yesterday
Last Line: From silence come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


DAYBREAK CALL, by GWENDOLEN HASTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the villages a word
Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYLIGHT ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Greasy sandals on a puke-stained sweater
Last Line: Stink of wilted poppies in a cracked jug, %greasy sandals on a puke-stained sweater
Subject(s): Dawn; Mexican Border


DAYSPRING, by VIOLET W. WILCOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dayspring is born each morning
Last Line: How happy you are %to be alive
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYSPRING, by CHERISE WYNEKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth has crept
Last Line: Sunny rays reach out and frame %thresholds %on the edge of day
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYSPRING COMES TO THE FARMLAND, by MARY STICKNEY STRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The glow of dayspring warms the eastern skies
Last Line: Doves coo a matin from their lookout perch %on the frosted steeple of this farmland church
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYSPRING JOY, by VALDA SCHAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nature and folk around the world are awakening
Last Line: A pervading serene peace fills the seeking believing %heart %like a thoughtful prayer
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYSPRING OF HOPE, by DOROTHY WHEELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dayspring...Is a hospital
Last Line: And promise... %coupled with a watchword %called...Hope
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYSPRING WILL RETURN, by HELEN WEBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bright day is coming
Last Line: When the dayspring returns %and all earth is made new?
Subject(s): Dawn


DAYSPRING'S GLOW, by GLENDA STROUP SMITHERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Is on the stars, on the earth, %and on my life below
Subject(s): Dawn


DEAD LEAVES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As though a gipsy maiden with dim look
Last Line: Of home intrudes upon our loneliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dusk; Night; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise; Bedtime


DEAR HOMER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At five this morning I opened half an eye
Last Line: Keeps coming up.
Subject(s): Dawn; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Iliad; Odyssey


DEPARTURE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The twilight is starred
Last Line: You hang at my heart!
Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Sunrise


DIAL-THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of thee at daybreak still
Last Line: But in thy breath from heaven above.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Loss; Love; Marriage; Memory; Thought; Sunrise; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking


DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to live; but truly
Last Line: Go ajourneying with the moon.
Subject(s): Conversation; Dawn; Language; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary


DOWN-FLOWERS; TO MAURICE MAETERLINCK, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow
Last Line: To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dramatists; Flowers; Life; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Dramatists


DRYADES, SELS., by WILLIAM DIAPER                       
Subject(s): Dawn


EARLY NEWS, by ANNA MARIA PRATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sparrow told it to the robin
Last Line: The news that dawn had come again.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


EARLY RISER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The face of the clock at 4 a.M.
Last Line: Any mail herself.
Subject(s): Clocks; Dawn; Day; Sleep; Time; Sunrise


EASTER DAWN, by CAROLINE M. KINDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lily bulbs, that in the earth
Last Line: Easter dawn!
Subject(s): Dawn; Easter; Holidays; Sunrise; The Resurrection


ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: DAYBREAK, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this moment when the light starts up
Last Line: And nothing will heal %under the rain's broken fingers
Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California


EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand
Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


EPIPHANY, by EVA MARIE IPPOLITO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three kings who rode from a distant land
Last Line: Let them again gaze at the face they adored
Subject(s): Dawn


ERE THY SOFT RAY BE LOST, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Behold! The first sunbeam
Subject(s): Dawn


FAITH THAT MOVED MOUNTAINS, by AUDREY R. LIVINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paul met our lord jesus on the road to damascus
Last Line: Paul followed a better way, grace through faith, %a gift from god above
Subject(s): Dawn


FIELDS OF DAWN, SELS., by LLOYD MIFFLIN                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature


FINIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On softly stepping feet
Last Line: And she will no further seek.
Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Death; Kisses; Worms; Sunrise; Dead, The


FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 3. SUMMER IN AUVERGNE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sundawn fills the land
Last Line: That scars their land.
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer; Sun; Sunrise


FROM MY WINDOW, by MARY ANKENY HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The morning mist is lifting
Last Line: In a moment with the coming of the day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


FROM THE NIGHT TO THE DAWN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In every night some haggard hours there are
Last Line: Of dawn and fill with light the hollow sky.
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


FROM THE NORTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more without you! Sighing,dear,once more
Last Line: The amber midnight smiles in dreams of dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dawn; Forests; Night; Sunrise; Woods; Bedtime


GHAZAL 2, by JOHN FALK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beautiful woman, a sore on her neck
Last Line: But we talked and talked till dawn
Subject(s): Beauty; Dawn; Women


GLOW OF DAWN, by ELIDA PATTISON BENTLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stars are hiding when the night is spent
Last Line: By startling brilliancy of regal sun.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


GOD IS ALIVE, by DALTON LANGLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strolling along the rippling stream
Last Line: At dayspring - knowing god, too, %is alive!
Subject(s): Dawn


GOLD OF OPHIR, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dawn, homing %nighthawks pass
Last Line: Who sleeps grandly, %like a queen
Variant Title(s): 'blue, Near-dawn
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature


HECALE. DAYBREAK IN THE CITY, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her tale was told, the other's listening done
Last Line: Sweat in the smithies, vext with deafening din.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


HEIRLOOM LACE, by LOLA GREENFIELD LAWRENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dusky handwork of the night
Last Line: To fold the lovely night away!
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Light; Sunrise


HIS EVERLASTING TROTH, by KATHY L. AKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mortal for but a heartbeat
Last Line: Our souls truly saved by god's everlasting love
Subject(s): Dawn


HIS SONG FOR HER WAKING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis dawn in the sky of the world
Last Line: If you cared -- if you cared.
Subject(s): Dawn; Love - Unrequited; Sunrise


HOW CAN I SING?, by FREDERICK C. BODEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Loudly the chanticleer now crows
Last Line: And wake them up that I may sing.
Subject(s): Dawn; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Songs


HOW GOD PLAYS, by GLENDA STROUP SMITHERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you wondered how god plays?
Last Line: See the waving fields of corn. %see a forest of bright stars
Subject(s): Dawn


HUSTLER LEAVES AT DAWN, by PHILIP CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some days I want
Last Line: Begging the city %to swallow my steps
Subject(s): Dawn; High School Students; Teenagers


HYMN TO THE DAWN, by MARCANTONIO FLAMINIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lo from the farthest east comes aurora
Last Line: That for long years to come I may behold thy shining light
Subject(s): Dawn


I RISE WITH AN EFFORT, by PHILIPPE JACCOTTET    Poem Source                    
First Line: I rise with an effort and look out
Last Line: With as many tears as the night
Subject(s): Dawn


I WALKED THE ROAD OF THE DAWN, FR. THE FREE BESIEGED, by DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Dawn


IN OLD HASTINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An hour ere dawn, when clustered stars are wan
Last Line: Is gathered to the secret of the sea!
Subject(s): Dawn; Hastings, England; Night; Sea; Sunrise; Bedtime; Ocean


IN SAN LORENZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is thine hour come to wake, o slumbering night?
Last Line: But will not yet thine angel bid thee wake?
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Italy; Light; Sunrise; Paradise; Italians


IN THE GARDEN AT THE DAWN HOUR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I arise in the silence of the dawn hour
Last Line: In the silence of the dawn hour!
Subject(s): Dawn; Silence; Sunrise


IN THE MEADOWS OF THE SKY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the great sower, night
Last Line: In that wide, heavenly land.
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


IN THE NAKED BED, IN PLATO'S CAVE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While history is unforgiven
Subject(s): Dawn


INVOCATION OF THE DAWN, by KALIDASA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look to this day!
Last Line: Look well, therefore, to this day!
Variant Title(s): Salutation To The Dawn
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events; Sunrise; Dead, The


INVOCATION [TO LOVE], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus, arise! / and paint the sable skies
Last Line: And everything, save her, who all should grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): Summons To Love;song
Subject(s): Apollo; Dawn; Mythology - Classical; Sunrise


LAMENT, by RON GROSSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart returned to rejoicing
Last Line: His open arms held me, once, again... %his love turned to be my dayspring
Subject(s): Dawn


LAMENTS AND SAYINGS: CHIME AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This little chime they play, matinal, wandering, revives they vanished
Last Line: Fresh heart of morn?
Subject(s): Bells; Dawn; Hearts; Life; Sunrise


LIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We know thee not, save that when thou are gone
Last Line: Come with the gift of franchisement again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


LIGHT TO GROW BY, by LEE MALONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is to god's holy touch of beginning dayspring
Last Line: He has already bequethed all this in love... %with his soul of everything!
Subject(s): Dawn


LOCH TORRIDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn of night more fair than morning rose
Last Line: But came on us hard out of heaven, and alive with the soul of the sea.
Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Night; Stars; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime


LONELY HEARTS, by M. J. JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weep for the tragic searchers
Last Line: And take the sure, worthy road %to witness, to love, for god's sake
Subject(s): Dawn


LOOK TO THIS DAY, by KALIDASA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Such is the salutation of the dawn
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events


MADAGASCAR: AUBADE, by WILLIAM DAVENANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lark now leaves his watery nest
Last Line: Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William
Variant Title(s): Song;song To His Mistress
Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Sunrise


MATER DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside
Last Line: And the soul of man and her soul and the world's be one.
Subject(s): Dawn; Holidays; New Year; Soul; Time; Sunrise


MESSIDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put in the sickles and reap
Last Line: Put in the sickles and reap.
Subject(s): Dawn; Harvest; War; Sunrise


METAPHYSICS AT LAKE OSWEGO, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn like never before
Last Line: You neither let go nor withhold.
Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Oregon; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds


MOON AND DAWN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bluest gray - the grayest blue
Last Line: Good-night to sorrows left behind
Subject(s): Dawn;moon; Sunrise


MOON, ALL LORDLY WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of red clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dawn; Moon; Nature; Sky


MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mirror tastes him
Last Line: Day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Sunrise


MORNING, by O. E. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wan light grows. In eastern skies afar
Last Line: And lo! The day-god leaps above the hills.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise


MOUNTAIN SUNRISE, by MARION DOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, hush
Last Line: And all the dreaming world is quick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


MYSTERY, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine ears have caught some melody of winds
Last Line: And sense a hidden music in the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Nature; Wind; Sunrise


NEAR THE DAWN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When life's troubles gather darkly
Last Line: Just before the break of dawn
Subject(s): Dawn;day; Sunrise


NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: DAWN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thrush is tapping a stone
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: SANCTUARIES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a chamber in the dawn
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear
Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean


NOVEMBER DAWN, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird called-called
Last Line: Dead endymion.
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; November; Sunrise


NOW THE SLOW DAWN, by BELLE TURNBULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the slow dawn relentless along the prairie
Last Line: Go out to the north mowing. Surely the dream will keep.
Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; Sunrise; Agriculture; Farmers


NUPTIAL NIGHT, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! And again the chatter of the starling / athwart the lawn!
Last Line: Bathe her, bedeck her, behymn her, my queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


OCTOBER DAWN, by L. KATHLEEN KITTERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly all nature rocks the cradled world
Last Line: The certain resurrection of the spring.
Subject(s): Dawn; October; Sunrise


ON DUTY'S KNOB, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flush of a beautiful sunrise
Last Line: As I looked at it that day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Mountains; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ONSET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, where the routed shadows pass
Last Line: Before the host of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


ORGAN SONGS: ANTIPHON, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daylight fades away
Last Line: Dwelleth in his men.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; God; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime


ORGAN SONGS: TO A. J. SCOTT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked all night: the darkness did not yield
Last Line: Yet hear æolian sighs from thin chords blown?
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Dawn; Hope; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Optimism


OUT OF THE DARK AND THE DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! But the darkness was densely
Last Line: And that was the dawn -- the dawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Night; Sunrise; World; Bedtime


PAEAN OF DAWN IN MAY, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the darkness before dawn
Last Line: And the world's roofed with song!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


PASS-A-GRILLE, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright sand, the sea-grape and the saw-palmetto
Last Line: These are scenes we love at pass-a-grille.
Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Villages; Sunrise


PHAETHON: THE BEGINNING OF DAY, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the sweet-voiced nightingale
Last Line: Bellying white to fore-stay go.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


POEM IN ORANGE TONES, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains hung closed, sealing off the window
Last Line: To come out on top.
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Waking; Sunrise


RAIN AT DAWN, by NORINE WINTROWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear distant laughter
Last Line: Coming up the sky.
Subject(s): Dawn; Rain; Sunrise


RED CLOUD OF DAWNING, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dawn


RED OF THE DAWN, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn peered in with blood-shot eyes
Subject(s): Dawn


REQUIESCAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be it life, be it death, there is nearing
Last Line: Of death to the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life; Sunrise; Dead, The


SECTION GANG: DAYBREAK, by NORMAN BOLKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up comes the sun
Last Line: But he wouldn't know.
Subject(s): Dawn; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Sunrise; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: INVOCATION TO THE DAWN, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sun god, smile the night's shadow away
Last Line: Grant us to see thy face.
Subject(s): Dawn; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Sunrise; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SHEPHERD, SHEPHERD, HARK, by THERESA OF AVILA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling!
Last Line: Angels they are, and the day is dawning
Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila
Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


SOMEWHERE A DAWN, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn now lifts eagerly her lovely head
Last Line: Swift falls a veil and they are one again.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SONG AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where then is my pain? I have no more pain. Where then is my
Last Line: Of the sun.
Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Suffering; Misery; Songs


SONG AT DAWN, by EDWARD GREENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look eastward, love
Last Line: Ah, love, again the old delight!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SONG AT DAWN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the dawn creep round the world
Last Line: Brightens above dark woodlands, day begins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SONG OF THE DAWN, FR. THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds of omen dark and foul
Last Line: Thou dar'st not face the godlike sun
Variant Title(s): Annot Lyle's Son
Subject(s): Dawn


SONG OF THE NIGHT AT DAYBREAK, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All my stars forsake me
Last Line: Sick with memories.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases
Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may.
Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs


SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky
Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight


SONNETS OF SUNRISE: 1, by EVA MARTIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I held throughout the long and dusty day
Last Line: But held its breath and waited for the sun.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SONNETS OF SUNRISE: 2, by EVA MARTIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So would I wait for thee, o sun of love
Last Line: Kiss all my buds to leaves, thou lord of light!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah welladay and wherefore am I here?
Last Line: Thankful if one would take her by the hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dawn; Hearts; Hope; Thought; Sunrise; Optimism; Thinking


SONNETS: 7. EVENING, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O soft last hour of evening, when the gold
Last Line: On bournes unknown, and far untravelled ways.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Love; Trees; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight


SOURCES OF LIGHT, by MARLON OHNESORGE-FICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: One morning before dawn I rose
Last Line: Like a child pulling it loose to freedom
Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Morning


SOUTHERN SURPRISE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Color of lemon, mango, peach,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SPRING AND DAWN, by J. LE MAIRE DE BELGES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trees newly leaved and dressed afresh in green
Last Line: Aurora views.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SPRING DAWN, by BROTHER CLEMENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: How many springs along my shrouded sense
Last Line: To shadow . . . And to endless spring!
Subject(s): Dawn; Spring; Sunrise


ST. AGNES' MORNING, by MAXWELL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the dawn and the sun's rising
Last Line: And the wind.
Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Dawn; Morning; Saints; Sunrise


STARS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, upon the field of night
Last Line: To bear the heaven-full harvest, dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Sunrise


STILL, STILL WITH THEE, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, still with thee, when purple morning breaketh
Last Line: Shall rise the glorious thought -- I am with thee.
Variant Title(s): When I Awake I Am Still With Thee
Subject(s): Christianity; Dawn; Prayer; Reformation; Religion; Sunrise; Theology


SUBURBAN DAWN, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is paler than suburban dawn;
Last Line: The whistle of the first train into town.
Subject(s): Dawn; Suburbs; Sunrise


SUN-RISE: A SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft let me wander, at the break of day
Last Line: With sparkling health, and joy, and fancy's fairy wiles!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SUN-UP AND TROUT-TIME, by SUSAN STINCHFIELD WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way out west they're sound asleep
Last Line: It's sun-up down in maine!
Subject(s): Dawn; Trout; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by BERNICE BAIRD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you ever seen the sunrise
Last Line: Around each flower sublime.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The broadening of the light is like a strain
Last Line: To play hunt's up, and wake the drowsy morn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dim light to the sou'ward
Last Line: Climbs up out of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Dawn; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sunrise; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SUNRISE, by KATHARINE KOSMAK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've never seen the great sun rise
Last Line: And stoops to drink the seas.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds are withdrawn
Last Line: From his flooding, flaming crimson crest!
Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sun; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, o blinded eyes and burning
Last Line: These shall flee away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The east is yellow as a daffodil
Last Line: The little boats, like torches, start ablaze.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE, by DONALD R. STEELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eastern sky is filled
Last Line: Dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunrise; Joy; Delight


SUNRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the wind and the sunlight of april and
Last Line: Forever.
Subject(s): Dawn; Seasons; Spring; Sunrise


SUNRISE ABOVE BROAD WHEAT-FIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pale tints of the twilight fields
Last Line: Sings as though god his singing heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dawn; Singing & Singers; Sunrise


SUNRISE AT ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, by SUSIE E. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night hangs her sable curtain in the sky
Last Line: Are made into one body by the light of god.
Subject(s): Churches; Dawn; Night; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Bedtime


SUNRISE FROM THE JERSEY SHORE, FR. ECHOES AND REALITIES, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the salt-cool, restless river way
Last Line: To clothe thy bareness in her morning lights!
Subject(s): Dawn; Seashore; Sunrise; Beach; Coast; Shore


SUNRISE IN THE CITY, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunrise over the houses!
Last Line: And the christ-light shining in '
Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Religion; Urban Life; Sunrise; Theology


SUNRISE ON SNOQUALMIE, by AUDRIA NOLTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forbidding peaks stand purple
Last Line: The majesty of god!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE ON THE COAST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey dawn on the sand hills - the night wind has drifted
Last Line: Behold, 'tis that marvel, the birth of a day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Dawn; Sea; Sunrise; Ocean


SUNRISE ON THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chimney rocks are huge chimney
Last Line: We had in getting there.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE OVER THE SIERRAS, by HENRY MEADE BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mind me how one day-break long ago
Last Line: And saw jehovah in the rising flame!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Sunrise


SUNRISE THROUGH THE TREES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where ocean reaches vast and wonderful
Last Line: And greet thee through the parting of the trees!
Subject(s): Dawn; Jesus Christ; Trees; Sunrise


SUNRISE TRUMPETS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim wind pillared the hills: stiller than mist it
Last Line: Of sunrise-trumpets! Up! Dawn is javelined!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SUNRISE, TISANG RIVER, by SEAN BRENDAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anchor line snapped, the boat drifts
Last Line: Trusting sleep; it's better that way
Subject(s): Boats; Dawn; Rivers


SUNRISE; A SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sudden trembling through the star's repose
Last Line: Like the gold centre of the rose's heart.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


SWIFTS, by PHILIPPE JACCOTTET    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the stormy moment of dawn
Last Line: Than any ear can climb
Subject(s): Dawn


THE CITY OF DESPAIR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn comes not: / and I have waited
Last Line: Above the sodden citadel of tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Despair; Evil; Urban Life; Sunrise


THE CURTAIN, by ELEANOR T. MACMILLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is dawn
Last Line: And find dawn faded into day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Sunrise


THE DAWN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the wild waves rock'd in shadow
Last Line: Which that dawn created there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


THE DAWN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red of the dawn!
Last Line: The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


THE DAWN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shimmering, glimmering, mystical dawn
Last Line: Loosed from my doubts, I welcome thee, dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Rebirth; Sunrise


THE DAWN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would be ignorant as the dawn
Last Line: Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dawn; Ignorance


THE DAWN INVADERS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unbroken slumbers through the night
Last Line: He has to get up anyhow.
Subject(s): Dawn; Guests; Sunrise; Visiting


THE DAWN STAR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feed me, o morning, till the ray
Last Line: Of light's perfection, fade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Stars; Sunrise


THE DAWN-BURST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, now the dead volcano night
Last Line: Of song foretold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


THE DAWN; THE BIRDS', by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E.
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Morning; Sunrise


THE DAWNING, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What time wilt thou come? When shall that cry
Last Line: Watching the break of thy great day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): The Second Advent
Subject(s): Dawn; Millenium; Sunrise


THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a balmy summer morning
Last Line: In the dim chill dawn of day!
Subject(s): Dawn; June; Sunrise


THE DUSKS OF DAWN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the slumberous, level masses of leaves
Last Line: For the body of day is under it all!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


THE FEAST, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn as yellow as sulphur leaped on the naked peak
Last Line: So it staggered and drooped, and droned in the morning light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dawn; Feasts; Sunrise


THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet to wind the forest's tangled shade
Last Line: Here spread her blush, and bid the parent live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Nature; Sunrise


THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou shouldst have risen as never dawn yet rose
Last Line: 07/05/80
Subject(s): Dawn; France; July; Sunrise


THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the people and horses have gone
Last Line: It whispers the world-secret.
Subject(s): Dawn; Night; Roads; Silence; Soul; Stars; Sunrise; Bedtime; Paths; Trails


THE LONELY DEATH, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cold I will rise, I will bathe
Last Line: And draw the sheet under my chin.
Subject(s): Cold; Dawn; Death; Solitude; Sunrise; Dead, The; Loneliness


THE LUCKFLOWER, by HARVEY W. FLINK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon a rugged hill-side
Last Line: Upon the mountain sides.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Flowers; Mountains; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MEETING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn tints the earth with rose, and all the balconies' gold palimpsest
Last Line: Deck the primrose-way, if you but willed it, of our love?
Subject(s): Dawn; Kisses; Love; Sunrise


THE MILLION DOLLAR RAIN, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn after dawn flung up the sky
Last Line: To watch the miracle.
Subject(s): Dawn; Money; Rain; Sunrise


THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN AT SUNRISE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms
Last Line: Bloom in the crystal air.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Mountains; Sun; Sunrise; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE NIGHT [NICHT] IS NEAR [NIGH] GONE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! Now the day dawis
Last Line: The nicht is neir gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1)
Variant Title(s): Aubade
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years
Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ...
Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain
Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


THE ROOKERY AT SUNRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lofty elm-trees darkly dream
Last Line: In one black phalanx towards the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Dawn; Elm Trees; Sunrise


THE SUN RISING, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Busy old fool, unruly sun
Last Line: This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.
Subject(s): Dawn; Love - Erotic; Freedom; Love; Sun; Sunrise; Liberty


THE SUNBOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spray of song that springs in april, light of
Last Line: Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray.
Subject(s): Dawn; Spring; Summer; Sunrise


THE WAY OF IT, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day is born at sunrise time
Last Line: As old hearts fail, grow still.
Subject(s): Dawn; Day; Life; Sunrise


THEOLOGICAL QUESTION, by SUZANNE CLEMENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just what is meant by dayspring?
Last Line: What do we mean by dayspring? %I'd really like to know
Subject(s): Dawn


THIS MORNING, GOD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four a.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab
Last Line: The incessant beating in my chest for two now.
Subject(s): Coffee; Dawn; Habits; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Memory; Morning; Past; Prayer; Silence; Solitude; Sunrise; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness


TO A BIRD AT DAWN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bird that somewhere yonder sings
Subject(s): Dawn


TO DOCTOR HAKE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beloved hour that ushers day
Last Line: And with a tide of song his silence broke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Sunrise


TOWARD SUNRISE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, in old days, our fathers came
Last Line: That cometh soon or late.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life; Sunrise; Dead, The


TRANSFIGURATION, by MARGIE B. BOSWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The faint magenta flush of dawn had turned
Last Line: Of silhouettes had never paused in flight.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunrise


TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn creeps laggard now into the wood
Last Line: Each morning, as she comes into the wood.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise


TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 2, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city is astir ere dawn has come
Last Line: The city is astir, ere dawn has come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; London; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise


TWO VIEWS OF IT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the daybreak, in the murky night
Last Line: Within my lamp or heart, of dawning day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Roosters; Sunrise; Cocks


UNLOCK, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream I am drinking wine
Last Line: Line up for the code - %daybreak!
Subject(s): Dawn


UP IN THE MORNIN' EARLY, by JOHN+(1) HAMILTON    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Cauld blows the wind frae north to south
Last Line: Than rise in the morning early
Subject(s): Dawn


WAITING, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I did not know the dawn could be so fair
Last Line: And waiting yields to life its very breath.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Love; Waiting; Sunrise; Dead, The


WATCHING SUNRISE (1), by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silence piled behind us far
Last Line: Darker, more silent, more far
Subject(s): Dawn; Silence


WE TWO SHALL MOVE TO FAIRY PLACES, by HOWARD PARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Claimed of gold heat
Last Line: "in a wind, like the trot of a red horse, on a walk, trotted for miles!"
Subject(s): Dawn; Fairies; Storms; Sunrise; Elves


WEE DAVIE DAYLICHT, by ROBERT TENNANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wee davie daylicht keeks owre the sea
Last Line: In amang the rosy clouds, far ayont the sea.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise


WEST OF DAYSPRING, by MARY STICKNEY STRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flames of dayspring
Last Line: And not one moment %may be wasted!
Subject(s): Dawn


WHAT IS DAYSPRING?, by EDITH BIDDIX MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dayspring is the dawn of day
Last Line: Refreshing it with hope and ease, %creating a life that is whole
Subject(s): Dawn


WHEN YOU DRINK FROM DAWN'S LIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You see the bottom of the cup
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Nature; Perception


WHILE BEAMS OF ORIENT LIGHT SHOOT WIDE AND HIGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gleams from a world in which the saints repose
Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Dawn


WHY DID YOU DEPART AT DUSK?, by CLARISSA M. BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: On your last journey, why did you set out at dusk?
Last Line: Of earth? -- for, unafraid, at dusk you went away.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; Travel; Sunrise; Journeys; Trips


WINGS AT DAWN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is dense with twitter
Last Line: And their wings are split silver as they pass.
Subject(s): Dawn; Swallows; Wings; Sunrise


WINTER DAWN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are still; the bare cold branches lie
Last Line: If you knew what's to come!
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


WORDS WHEN WE NEED THEM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this early moment
Last Line: We could still say.
Subject(s): Dawn; Language; Morning; Silence; Sunrise; Words; Vocabulary


ZUNI DAYBREAK, by WILLIAM FELTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: With wistful eyes turned to the east
Last Line: The breath of summer comes.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise