A Gift
Published in Poem Of The Day
I Woke: -
Night, lingering, poured upon the world
Of drowsy hill and wood and lake
Her moon-song,
And the breeze accompanied with hushed fingers
On the birches.
Gently the dawn held out to me
A golden handful of bird's-notes.
About this poem
"A Gift" was published in Leonora Speyer's book "A Canopic Jar" (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1921).
About Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer was born in Washington, D.C., in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her collection "Fiddler's Farewell" (Knopf, 1926). Speyer died in 1956.
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