Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORNING GLORY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth's awake, 'neath the laughing skies Last Line: What in the world is better than these? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories | ||||||||
EARTH'S awake, 'neath the laughing skies, After the dewy and dreamy night, -- Riot of roses and babel of birds, All the world in a whirl of delight. Roses smile in their white content, Roses blush in their crimson bliss, As the vagrant breezes wooing them Ruffle their petals with careless kiss. Yellow butterflies flutter and float Jewelled humming-birds glitter and glow, And scorning the ways of such idle things Bees flit busily to and fro. The mocking-bird swells his anxious throat, Trying to be ten birds in one; And the swallow twitters, and dives, and darts Into the azure to find the sun. But robin red-breast builds his house Singing a song of the joy to come, And the oriole trims his golden vest, Glad to be back in his last year's home. Lilies that sway on their slender stalks, Morning-glories that nod to the breeze, Bloom of blossoms and joy of birds, -- What in the world is better than these? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAPTIVE FLOWER by DENISE LEVERTOV MORNING GLORIES by MARY OLIVER THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT by ERIC PANKEY WAITING FOR THE MORNING GLORIES by DIANE WAKOSKI BEES AND MORNING GLORY by JOHN CIARDI THE MORNING-GLORY by MARIA WHITE LOWELL INSCRIPTION IN A COPY OF 'LIFE'S MORNING' by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL MORNING GLORY by AGNES H. HEMSATH PLANTING MORNING GLORIES IN OCTOBER by CHARLIE SMITH A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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