Marion Strobel. Without Words. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Without Words

By Marion Strobel


From “That Year” THE SILENCE thins out—falls away
Before a vivid stillness
That we press
Nearer with words.
We say our usual ritual—close the day	5
With laughter, while the stillness spreads
A halo round our nodding heads.
Again we praise the little past, praise what is done;
Cling to the days we’ve lost,
And lose the hour we’ve won.	10