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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORNING, by O. E. YOUNG
First Line: The wan light grows. In eastern skies afar
Last Line: And lo! The day-god leaps above the hills.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise
First Line: The wan light grows. In eastern skies afar
Last Line: And lo! The day-god leaps above the hills.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sun; Sunrise
The wan light grows. In eastern skies afar,
The spangled curtains of the gates of day
Their star-strewn folds of blackness roll away,
And heaven's shining portals swing ajar.
Night her dark dungeon hastens to unbar
And set the dawn's bright children free to stray
Through fields of azure, gleaming in the ray
Of an unrisen sun. The morning star,
Drowned in a sea of splendor, hides its beams
As on the radiant procession streams,
And wave on wave of light creation fills.
North, west and south they kindle, as, by turns,
The east from pale to pink, to crimson burns,
And lo! the day-god leaps above the hills.
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