Loureine Aber. My Friend. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

My Friend

By Loureine Aber


From “Laurel Wreaths” HE ran wild:
I have seen the stiff butterfly-weed by the road
Flaming—as he.
When I asked him—I who could sit every night
By a snug, safe fire—	5
He said:
“I was a mendicant under the Dark Reign,
And sat on a dung-hill nine years
Praying grace.
God gave me grace—	10
I have a wine-cup that is higher than the towers rising over Notre Dame.