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MORNING by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: I WENT OUT ON AN APRIL MORNING
Last Line: SWEPT AS A SEA-BIRD OUT TO SEA.
Subject(s): MORNING;

I went out on an April morning
All alone, for my heart was high,
I was a child of the shining meadow,
I was a sister of the sky.

There in the windy flood of morning
Longing lifted its weight from me,
Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering,
Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.






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