The Souvenir by Antoinette De Coursey Patterson. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1920. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920.

The Souvenir

Antoinette De Coursey Patterson


OF finest porcelain and of choicest dye,
This bit of egg shell from a robin’s nest;
I thought at first I’d found upon earth’s breast
A chip from that blue bowl we call the sky! Contemporary Verse