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

The Lover

Paul Tanaquil

YOU do not know the wonder I will pour on your name—

It will burst like thunder with all heaven for a frame!

I will raise it as a flame that the wind blows under,

I will cast myself asunder—to my shame, to my blame!

I will make a fame, a wonder of your name.