Myra Viola Wilds
Myra Viola Wilds was born in Kentucky. She authored the poetry collection Thoughts of Idle Hours (National Baptist Publishing Board, 1915), in her own hand after losing her eyesight due to overwork as a dressmaker. Source
Dewdrops
Watch the dewdrops in the morning,
Shake their little diamond heads,
Sparkling, flashing, ever moving,
From their silent little beds.
See the grass! Each blade is brightened,
Roots are strengthened by their stay;
Like the dewdrops, let us scatter
Gems of love along the way.
Published:
1915
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Nature
Literary Devices:
Quatrain
A stanza made of four lines.
Rhyme
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
Simile
a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”