Charles R. Murphy. Mid-May. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Mid-May

By Charles R. Murphy


From “Growth” PUT aside your words, and there are left
Stones of the grey walls and apple-trees;
And in the flesh and mind, and in what seems
Birthing almost of an immortal soul,
Virginity and fortitude and hope—	5
Delicate as blossoms on the gnarled limbs
White, grey and green above the risen grass.