Love Songs (1917)/Morning

by Sara Teasdale

For other versions of this work, see Morning (Teasdale).

 

MORNING

I went out on an April morning
All alone, for my heart was high,
I was a child of the shining meadow,
I was a sister of the sky.

There in the windy flood of morning
Longing lifted its weight from me,
Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering,
Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.