'Morning' poetry

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Poimen

Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Most of my poetry books are buried in boxes right now so I am looking for some help: a classic quote on morning and/or morning light. And no "What light through yonder window breaks?" doesn't work because I don't want it to be romantic. :)

Thanks.
 
Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 could work:

FULL many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all-triumphant splendour on my brow;
But, out! alack! he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath mask’d him from me now.
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
Suns of the world may stain when heaven’s sun staineth.
 
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