1650. Morning Fancy by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1650. Morning Fancy

By Mary McNeil Fenollosa


O LET me die a-singing!
O let me drown in light!
Another day is winging
Out from the nest of night.

The morning-glory’s velvet eye	5
Brims with a jewelled bead.
To-day my soul’s a dragon-fly,
The world a swaying reed.