A song or poem with a motif of greeting the dawn, often involving the parting of lovers, or a call for a beloved to arise, as in Shakespeare's "Song" from Cymbeline Sidelight: The dawn song is also known as an alba (Provençal), aube (old French), and tagalied (German) (Compare Serenade)
a morning song in which the coming of dawn is either celebrated or denounced as a nuisance
a medieval love poem welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn An example is John Donne's "The Sun Rising "
(also called a dawn song): a genre of poetry The poem is about the dawn coming of dawn, or it is a piece of music meant to be sung or played outdoors at dawn Examples include Browning's "The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn" from Pippa Passes or Shakespeare's "Hark! hark! the lark " Some poems, such as John Donne's "Busy old sun," share traits with the dawn song Troilus and Criseyde also contains an example within its larger narrative