Morning
Loading...
Media is loading
Publication Information
Published in Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
Performed by Herbert Woodward Martin
Musical Settings
Henry Cowell, Morning (TTBBB chorus, falsetto or boys' chorus ad libitum, a cappella) (January 1950)
Recommended Citation
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, "Morning" (1905). Dunbar Music Archive. 151.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/151
COinS
Text
The mist has left the greening plain,
The dew-drops shine like fairy rain,
The coquette rose awakes again
Her lovely self adorning.
The Wind is hiding in the trees,
A sighing, soothing, laughing tease,
Until the rose says "Kiss me, please,"
'Tis morning, 'tis morning.
With staff in hand and careless-free,
The wanderer fares right jauntily,
For towns and houses are, thinks he,
For scorning, for scorning.
My soul is swift upon the wing,
And in its deeps a song I bring;
Come, Love, and we together sing,
"'Tis morning, 'tis morning."