| Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920. | | | | Annabel | | By Jeanne d’Orge |
| | | ANNABEL it is who always answers me— | |
| who keeps my house, who bears me docile children. | |
| When Annabel forgets that her smiles are mine | |
| a bolt slips— | |
| In a wild-flower garden a humming-bird woman | 5 |
| darts and flits. | |
| To move would mean the flash of wings | |
| and silence— | |
| When she forgets that sorrow must be shared with me | |
| mist clears— | 10 |
| A grave young man kneels at an altar… | |
| Her eyes burn past me ever longing, ever seeking… | |
| When she forgets herself and me in sleep | |
| she lies with baby-lids half open. | |
| I see a shining stretch of sea … fierce blue… | 15 |
| a slim brown shape … dancing feet of rapture. | |
| This is that one whose voice I heard once in a dream. | |
| This is that one whom to possess I married Annabel. | |
| This is that one whom to escape Annabel married me. | | | | |
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