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John Donne (1572–1631). The Poems of John Donne. 1896.

Songs and Sonnets

Break of Day

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.