Living

Good Mistress Sundial

by Mary Mapes Dodge 1831–1905

From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)

Living

"Good Mistress Sundial, what's the hour?"
"Alack! to tell you I haven't power.
It rains; and I only can work, you see,
When the sun is casting his light upon me.
I'm nothing at all but a senseless block
Whenever his beautiful rays depart;
But ask my neighbor, the Four-o'clock;
She carries the time o' day in her heart."

MLA

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Good Mistress Sundial.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/16/.

Chicago

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Good Mistress Sundial.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/16/.

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