Living
Monday
From Maurine and Other Poems (1888)
Living
Awake! arise! Cast off thy drowsy dreams!
Red in the East, behold the Morning gleams.
"As Monday goes, so goes the week," dames say.
Refreshed, renewed, use well the initial day.
And see! thy neighbor
Already seeks his labor.
Cite this poem
MLA
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Monday.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/171/.
Chicago
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Monday.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/171/.
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