Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

God-lover

Muriel Safford

WHO are you?

Why do you hide behind

Your mask—the sun and stars?

The brazen day and

The moon-washed night

Are alms that you give your beggars.

I ask no mendicant’s pittance—

I cry for the supreme desolation of your face.