Flame and Shadow/Morning Song

by Sara Teasdale

For works with similar titles, see Morning Song.

 

MORNING SONG

A diamond of a morning
Waked me an hour too soon;
Dawn had taken in the stars
And left the faint white moon.

O white moon, you are lonely,
It is the same with me,
But we have the world to roam over,
Only the lonely are free.