Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

I Give Smiles

Marion Strobel

YOU are the reaching out in me,

The supplication of my folded hands.

You are the breaking radiance of my hope—

My high desire.

I will give you a gay futility of smiles,

For I cannot fill the vastnesses

With which you stretch my life

To emptiness.