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New Every Morning - by Susan Coolidge

{ Poem }

Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.

Early Morning, West Hartlepool, 1963 - by Eddie Gibbons

{ Poem }

(from the photo with the same title by Don McCullin)
/
/ A pipe fitter’s mate at the gates of dawn
/ Is wrenched from…

Listen. Put on morning - by W. S. Graham

{ Poem }

Listen. Put on morning.
/ Waken into falling light.
/ A man’s imagining
/ Suddenly may inherit
/ The handclapping centuries
/ Of his one minute on earth.
/ And hear the…

Real Presence - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

Clear as the endless ecstasy of stars
/ That mount for ever on an intense air;
/ …

Up in the Morning Early - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
/ The drift is driving sairly;
/ Sae loud and shrill’s I hear…

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