Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Compensation

Anna Spencer Twitchell

THE YEARS have taken all I had:

Swift senses, supple grace,

Gold from my hair, light from my eyes,

The roses from my face.

The years have taken all I had:

Now shall they give to me,

Who from their hands in one keen breath

Take immortality.