331. A Gallant Woman by Clara Shanafelt. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

331. A Gallant Woman

By Clara Shanafelt


SHE burst fierce wine
From the tough skin of pain,
Like wind that wrings from rigid skies
A scant and bitter gleam,
Long after the autumnal dusk	5
Has folded all the valleys in.