Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nov. 5, 1850 - Oct. 30, 1919

 

Turquoise

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A baby went to heaven while it slept,
And, waking, missed its mother's arms, and wept.
Those angel tear-drops, falling earthward through
God's azure skies, into the turquoise grew.

Source:

Poems of Sentiment
Copyright 1911
Gay And Hancock, Ltd., London