33. Night and Morning Songs by Gordon Bottomley. Dawn. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

33. Night and Morning Songs

Dawn

By Gordon Bottomley


A THRUSH is tapping a stone
With a snail-shell in its beak;
A small bird hangs from a cherry
Until the stern shall break.
No waking song has begun,	5
And yet birds chatter and hurry
And throng in the elm’s gloom
Because an owl goes home.