Mother says, "Get up, Jack, For the pleasures you have missed. Flowers are anodding so For the dew drops they have kissed. "With a practiced eye I see Gold, red, blue suffuse the sky, Just a veil of harmony Through the sun that's shining high. "Weak and trembling for the day This a courage gives once more So I brush the tears away Leave the sunbeams through my door, "Which is open wide to stay And the room is full of light. In this mist of ecstasy All my burdens grow more light." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JONSON by JOHN CLEVELAND THE SWAMP ANGEL by HERMAN MELVILLE A MARTYR'S MASS; FATHER MIGUEL PRO, EXECUTED AY MEXICO CITY, 1927 by ALFRED BARRETT MISS MILLY O'NAIRE by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER LULLABY by FRED EMERSON BROOKS |