Alice Corbin. The Storm Bird. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Storm Bird

By Alice Corbin


From “Songs from a Book of Airs” ALL day a storm bird in my breast
Had struggled to be free,
And I who never sought such guest
Endured in agony.

At last in pain I tore my breast	5
To set the wild thing free;
“Now you who came unasked, unsought,
I pray you, let me be!”

But at this word my stormy guest
Grew quieter, serene;	10
And rings of light dropped softly down
From sun-tipped clouds unseen.