Florence Kiper Frank. With Child. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

With Child

By Florence Kiper Frank


From “New Life” AH, I am heavy now and patient,
Moving as the dumb, tamed animals move, ploddingly,
Burdened, burdened;
Knowing ahead of me the iron pain—yet am I dumb and patient.
A stillness is thick and heavy upon me …	5
Waiting …

Inevitably you unfold within me.
Sudden I am smitten with terror—
How shall I carry the burden of a soul!