Meaning Aubade
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A love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. The form originated in medieval France. See John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” and Louise Bogan’s “Leave-Taking.” Browse more aubade poem [..]
Source: poetryfoundation.org

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An aubade is a morning song. A well-known example is the Siegfried Idyll, a work written by Richard Wagner to be played for his second wife Cosima on the morning of her birthday.
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"musical announcement of dawn," from French aubade (15c.), from Provençal aubada, from auba "dawn," from Latin alba, fem. of albus "white" (see alb).
Source: etymonline.com

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A very dishy french lingerie..which will pile what you have to amazing shapes and geometry. The cleavage just arrives..
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A genre of poetry in which a short poem's subject is about the dawn or the coming of the dawn, or it is a piece of music meant to be sung or played outdoors at dawn. Examples include Browning [..]
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A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover. John Donne's "The Sun Rising" exemplifies this poetic genre.
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a poem in which the coming of dawn is either celebrated, as in Billy Collins’s "Morning," or denounced as a nuisance, as in John Donne’s "The Sun Rising."
Source: wwnorton.com

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 – a lyric poem about morning or the rising sun
Source: phccwritingcenter.org

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Morning music; a morning concert in the open air performed for a specific individual (such as a member of a royal family). As opposed to a serenade which is performed in the evening.
Source: dictionary.onmusic.org

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Poem written to celebrate the dawn e.g. The Sun Rising by John Donne.  
Source: poetsgraves.co.uk

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A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.
Source: en.wiktionary.org





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