Helen Birch-Bartlett. Undercurrents. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Undercurrents

By Helen Birch-Bartlett


From “A Line-a-day for Certain Lovers” THERE were warnings and devious oppositions:
Frankness, simplicity,
And many, many undercurrents.
And all the while I knew that what they feared of me
I had no desire to accomplish. . . . . . . . . . . . .	5
I took as much—as little—all that I wanted, all.

I alone guessed how much it was;
But they blessed me, sighing in their relief,
For how little.