| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Key Notes (1879)
I. Morning | | By Louisa S. Guggenberger (1845–1895) |
| | | WHAT’S the text to-day for reading | |
| Nature and its being by? | |
| There is effort all the morning | |
| Thro’ the windy sea and sky. | |
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| All, intent in earnest grapple | 5 |
| That the All may let it be: | |
| Force, in unity, at variance | |
| With its own diversity. | |
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| Force, prevailing into action, | |
| Force, persistent to restrain, | 10 |
| In a twofold, one-souled wrestle | |
| Forging Being’s freedom-chain. | |
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| Frolic! say you—when the billow | |
| Tosses back a mane of spray? | |
| No; but haste of earnest effort; | 15 |
| Nature works in guise of play. | |
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| Till the balance shall be even | |
| Swings the to and fro of strife; | |
| Till an awful equilibrium | |
| Stills it, beats the Heart of Life. | 20 |
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| What’s the text to-day for reading | |
| Nature and its being by? | |
| Effort, effort all the morning, | |
| Thro’ the sea and windy sky. | | | | |
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