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Aubade | Definition of Aubade by Merriam-Webster

It has also been defined as "a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak". She was generally sitting watch when dawn came, and so her morning aubade was his call to wakefulness. Rhapsody watched as the bright celestial light dimmed in the brightening sky, then began to sing her last customary aubade , the song to Seren, the star she was born beneath, on the other side of the world.


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I would be happy to teach you the elegy for Seren, the aubade that the ancients composed upon leaving the old world. Liringlas sang for the sun as it sank below the edge of the world, welcoming it again in the morning with the dawn aubade , the love song to the morning sky. The Liringlas mother sings the song she has chosen through the course of each day, through mundane events, in quiet moments when she is alone, before each morning aubade , after each evening vesper.

Fire of dawn, light of the day Warming the world with your glow Awaken again we, your children Who, chanting the aubade , know That we have welcomed sunrise. In the hothouse Aubade stood absently caressing the branches of a young mimosa, hearing a motif of sap-rising, the rough and unresolved anticipatory theme of those fragile pink blossoms which, it is said, insure fertility.

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The shepherd cannot afford Donne's scornful view of the serious business of earning a living. Love must wait its turn.

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The aubade has been surprisingly popular among modern poets. Edith Sitwell marries the aubade with the nursery rhyme[x] to produce idiosyncratic results; read her Aubade aloud and you can almost hear her voice come alive. John Heath-Stubbs, in The Unpredicted , contrives to write an aubade that is both traditional and perfectly of his own moment.

But perhaps the most striking of all 20th-century aubades is William Empson's poem dated ; it is not the sun that parts the lovers, one Japanese, the other English, but the shadow of impending war. Here the personal and the political intersect in one of those rare poems that bring us inside a moment in history.

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And so, sleepers awaken: this month I'm looking for dawn poems. You may decide to adhere to the conventions of the aubade, to adapt them or to ignore them entirely. Let us celebrate the paloverdes' green and the fecundity of mesquite. Life abounds in the insects, the lizards, the coyotes, the snakes and in the hawks.

The desert breathes, the whirling ghosts.


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Shadows shift. The wise ones chant.