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In the Morning

Chapter 2: To my Mother.
By Willis Boyd Allen
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A sequence of lyric poems that meditates on dawn, nature, and spiritual feeling, often deploying mountain, forest, and seaside imagery to probe grief, consolation, and renewal. Poems move among quiet pastorals, occasional and domestic verse, devotional hymns, translations, and lighter nonsense pieces, following seasonal rhythms and holiday observances. The voice shifts between elegiac introspection and bright affirmation, favoring sensory detail—birdsong, running water, sunlight—and a consolatory outlook that finds moral and emotional sustenance in simple scenes and ritual moments.

To my Mother.

CONTENTS.

  Page
At Chrystemesse-Tyde 9
Vita Nuova 11
Not in the Whirlwind 15
Diapason 17
Chamounix 20
In the Morning 22
Marigold 25
“Seventeen, Eighteen, Maid’s A-Waiting!” 27
To M——, on her Birthday 29
“Yours Truly” 30
A Sermon by a Lay Preacher 32
In Somno Veritas 36
Thalatta 38
Unknown 39
My Cross 41
A Valentine 42
White Pink 44
Aprille 45
May 46
August 47
Carlo’s Christmas 48
The Sun was Red and Low 50
Two Visions 52
My Creed 54
Again? 55
Pansy 56
Golden-Rod 57
To Margaret, on St. Valentine’s Day 58
To a Very Small Pine 59
Mosses 61
The Mount of the Holy Cross 63
Christmas Snow 64
The “Creation” 65
The Happy Valley 67
Dollie’s Spring 71
The Third Day 73
The Seventh Day 73
Fern Life 75
Its Home 75
At School 76
Asleep 76
A Cradle-Song of the Night Wind 77
The Chime 77
The Hymn of the Northern Pines 78
At Last 79
Pauses and Clauses 80
To M——, with a Copy of “The Peterkin Papers” 81
Memorial Poem 83
Dandelion 90
Marjorie 92
Primrose 94
Content 96
With a Small Letter-Opener 98
Sea-Girls 102
Homeward 104
A Nonsense-Song for M—— 107
Translations 113
In the North-land 113
A Lovely Flower 113
Eagerly I cry 114
He who for the first Time 114
Little Maid 115
It was as if the Heavens 115
In Morning-Land 117
Sic Itur ad Astra 119
The Comet, November, 1882 121
“His Star” 122
“Licht, Mehr Licht!” 124
Psalm LXXX 126
Unto the Perfect Day 127
Hymn for Christmas Eve 128
Blind 130
Refuge 133
Guido Reni’s “Ecce Homo” 135
On Christmas Eve 136
By Night 139
“Star of Bethlehem” 141
“Blessed” 143
A Christmas Pastoral 146
The Fourth Watch 148
“With You Alway” 151
December 31 152
In my Arm-Chair 154