Stay o sweet and do not rise
- DMI number:
- 16693
- First Line:
- Stay o sweet and do not rise
- Last Line:
- Should in despite of light keep us together
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lyric and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Day and Love
- Author:
- John Donne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Smith (1971): 151; Variant of 'Break of day' see Grierson I, 432 for extra stanza - the first, 'possibly by John Dowland (discussed in II, cxlviii).
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.267
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Donne
- Attributed To:
- John Donne
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