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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
Related People
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).