Upon the breaking of the dawn,
the world will wake, the dreams have gone.
The sun will grace the dew-tipped grass,
and the nightmares of the dark are now long past.
The songbird in the yew tree will sing a keening tune;
and the sparrows in the maple will await the coming June.
For then, no longer, the cold will cling to daybreak,
and then, no longer, the sun will rise o’er frozen lakes.
For the sunrise in the peak of summer lives
and breaths, the grandest sight this world e’er gives.
To see the breaking dawn over hills of verdant green-
the most vibrant sight that e’er I’ve seen;
‘Tis the sweetest thing in all the world, I know,
to see the sun rising, and to see the winter go.
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NOTE: This is not a sonnet, this is an ode, but for some unknown reason dA does not have a section for odes...a tragedy, to be sure.
Another portfolio assignment...we had to write either an ode or a sonnet. This one is fairly simple. The octet romanticizes a sunrise and the beauty of such a simple thing, and after the volta, the narrator goes on to express a longing for winter to end and summer to start. This is sort of a cross between something a Romantic writer might create and something William Carlos Williams would concoct, with an emphasis on eulogizing the simple beauties of life. Yes, a sunrise is clichéd but my muse made me do it.  |
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