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A Gift

Leonora Speyer

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.

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About This Poem

“A Gift” was published in Speyer’s book A Canopic Jar (E. P. Dutton & Company, 1921).

Leonora Speyer was born in Washington D.C. in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her collection Fiddler’s Farewell (Knopf, 1926). Speyer died in 1956.

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