Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT FIVE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: This morning I woke up at five
Last Line: To hear the milkman at the door!
Subject(s): Morning; Waking


THIS morning I woke up at five
And nothing seemed to be alive!
I couldn't find my voice to speak,
Even the bed springs wouldn't squeak—

There was no sound at all—The room
Was crowded full of cold, grey gloom—
It pressed up close beside my bed
And made strange singings in my head.

Then someone shrilly shouted, "Whoa!"
And all the strangeness seemed to go—
I never felt so glad before
To hear the milkman at the door!





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