Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Daybreak

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.

— John Donne
1573-1631   


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