Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MORNING GLORY MAGIC, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL


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MORNING GLORY MAGIC, by                    
First Line: Morning glories shyly peeping
Last Line: Dishes took me just a minute.


Morning glories shyly peeping
Came one day when I was sweeping
Unaware of graceful tangles,
Fluted gowns and purple spangles.
Soon about me they were flocking,
Smiling, whispering and mocking;
But I thought of all my dishes,
And my heart so full of wishes ...
"Would my brow were bound with heather,
Free my hands of this dull tether!"

Suddenly I float a feather
And I smile beneath the heather ...
Then with purple figures lightly,
I go swinging, oh, so sprightly.
Would a body ever guess that
In a purple ballet dress sat
Such a one as washes dishes
With a heart chock-full of wishes?

You may scoff and laugh about it,
But I hope you will not doubt it ...
How those purple fluted dancers
Sat me on their graceful prancers,
Rode me long and how they tricked me,
How with crops they gently pricked me,
And of sense of time bereft me! ...
Late as half-past four they left me.

Then, light-hearted as a linnet,
Dishes took me just a minute.





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