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A Gift

I woke: —
Night, lingering, poured upon the world
Of drowsy hill and wood and lake
Her moon-song,
And the breeze accompanied with hushed fingers
On the birches.

Gently the dawn held out to me
A golden handful of bird’s-notes.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on November 7, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

Leonora Speyer

Leonora Speyer

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
Frost at Midnight	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	12/10/2011
To a Locomotive in Winter	Walt Whitman	12/09/2011
In drear nighted December	John Keats	12/08/2011
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97)	William Shakespeare	12/07/2011
There’s a certain Slant of light (258)	Emily Dickinson	12/06/2011
Approach of Winter	William Carlos Williams	12/05/2011
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	12/04/2011
Earth Took of Earth	Anonymous	12/03/2011
Enemies	Dante Micheaux	12/02/2011
The Gardenia	Cornelius Eady	11/30/2011