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

Epilogue

Helen Birch-Bartlett

From “A Line-a-day for Certain Lovers”

BLUE-PURPLE,

The shadow of the earth

Circles the long horizon.

My life is circled

By the shadow of your love.

Blue-purple out there,

And over the blue

A rose-pink mist that rises—

That rising, fades.

No frail, flushed aureole

Crowns the shadow in my heart….

Unless this:

That you suffer a little and are often alone

Because of your love

That breathed upon such a pale flame.