Daybreak
1573-1631
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.
DayPoems Poem No. 196
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/196.html">Daybreak by John Donne</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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