86. Paradox. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Modern American Poetry

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

86. Paradox

I WENT out to the woods to-day
To hide away from you,
From you a thousand miles away—
But you came, too.

And yet the old dull thought would stay,	5
And all my heart benumb—
If you were but a mile away
You would not come.