Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Trailing Arbutus

Ruth Mason Rice

WHY do you hide beneath the pines, and cling to earth,

Infrequent, foolish flower of fragrant breath?

Your blossoms fresh and pink, like babies at their birth;

Your twigs as brown and brittle as old women at their death.