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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER MORNING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars faded out of the paling sky
Last Line: Borne on the morning wind, the wild duck came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ducks; Morning; Winter; Mallards; Drakes
First Line: The stars faded out of the paling sky
Last Line: Borne on the morning wind, the wild duck came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ducks; Morning; Winter; Mallards; Drakes
(BROOKHILL, 1918)
THE stars faded out of the paling sky,
Dropped through the waters, but the Morning Star
Grew brighter and brighter, and as day was nigh
A pure wind troubled the rushes near and far.
No bird was yet awake: only the duck
Homed to the little lake, fed full with streams:
Strange and unreal the full morning broke
On a still world as God saw it in dreams.
The still-life, austere world was grey and cool,
Lit by one burning torch of purest flame.
Home—from what hidden haunt, what secret pool?—
Borne on the morning wind, the wild duck came.
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