The Lover's Morning Salute to his Mistress
A lover asks whether his beloved is asleep or awake as dawn brings roaming deer and singing birds. He compares Chloris's presence to sunlight dispelling darkness: separation leaves him desolate, while seeing her restores his joy.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 255 words
First lines
Tune-"Deil tak the wars."
Sleep'st thou, or wak'st thou, fairest creature? / Rosy morn now lifts his eye, / Numbering ilka bud which Nature / Waters wi' the tears o' joy. / Now, to the streaming fountain, / Or up the heathy mountain, / The hart, hind, and roe, freely, wildly-wanton stray; / In twining hazel bowers, / Its lay the linnet pours, / The laverock to the sky / Ascends, wi' sangs o' joy, / While the sun and thou arise to bless the day.
Genres
- Love Poetry — The speaker addresses his beloved and contrasts his sorrow during separation with his joy at seeing her.
- Lyric Poetry — Two rhymed stanzas express a lover's feelings, with a named tune supplied for singing.
Tags
dawn · love · separation · birdsong
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 255 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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