Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNRISE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: I watch the glory that brings in the day
Last Line: By angels brought us from the land of sleep.
Subject(s): Morning


I watch the glory that brings in the day
From college towers that look across the glen,
The eastern heaven spread out to my ken:
The trees below, bright-tipped with morning's ray;
The sky above, with livid colors gay,
Now filled with flaming clouds, with banks of fire
Heaped to the zenith, now in dull attire --
One glowing band below the heaven's gray --
And now a quiet sea with tint of green,
And flakes of rosy and of sapphire lights,
And now a band of purple, dark and deep,
In lighter skies, and edged with silver sheen;
Now all one flush of color: wondrous sights
By angels brought us from the land of sleep.





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