Morning (Monday Poem)

by Emily Dickinson

 

 

Will there really be a morning?

    Is there such a thing as day?

Could I see it from the mountains

    If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like water lilies?

    Has it feathers like a bird?

Is it brought from famous countries

    Of which I've never heard?

Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!

    Oh, some wise man from the skies!

Please to tell a little pilgrim,

    Where the place called morning lies!

from Poetry by Heart: A Child's Book of Poems to Remember

compiled by Liz Attenborough

Scholastic 2001 

 

W (Monday Poem)

 by James Reeves

The King sent for his wise men all

    To find a rhyme for W;

When they had thought a good long time

But could not think of a single rhyme,

    'I'm sorry,' said he, 'to trouble you.'

from Poetry by Heart: A Child's Book of Poems to Remember

compiled by Liz Attenborough

Scholastic 2001

Singing Time (Monday Poem)

 by Rose Fyleman

I wake in the morning early

And always, the very first thing,

I poke out my head and I sit up in bed

And I sing and I sing and I sing.

from Poetry by Heart: A Child's Book of Poems to Remember

compiled by Liz Attenborough

Scholastic 2001

The Sun (Monday Poem)

 by Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen

anything

in your life

more wonderful

than the way the sun,

every evening,

relaxed and easy,

floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,

or the rumpled sea,

and is gone---

and how it slides again

out of the blackness,

every morning,

on the other side of the world,

like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils

say, on a morning in early summer,

at its perfect imperial distance--

and have you ever felt for anything

 

such wild love---

do you think there is anywhere, in any language,

a word billowing enough

for the pleasure

that fills you,

as the sun

reaches out,

as it warms you

 

as you stand there,

empty-handed---

or have you too

gone crazy

for power,

for things?

 

 

from Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, by Mary Oliver

Penguin Random House, 2017