Living
Tuesday
From Maurine and Other Poems (1888)
Living
Another morning's banners are unfurled--
Another day looks smiling on the world.
It holds new laurels for thy soul to win:
Mar not its grace by slothfulness or sin,
Nor sad, away,
Send it to yesterday.
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MLA
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Tuesday.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/172/.
Chicago
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Tuesday.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/172/.
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