| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Frightened Face | | By Marion Strobel |
| | From “Song Sketches”
CHILD of the frightened face, | |
| Trying to understand | |
| The little bit of love | |
| Under your hand, | |
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| Holding the little love | 5 |
| Under fingers that crush | |
| That which is soft as the | |
| Throat of a thrush, | |
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| Holding your hand upon | |
| The wonder of the thing, | 10 |
| Crushing out the song that | |
| Wanted to sing: | |
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| Child of the frightened face, | |
| Why do your fingers try | |
| To kill the little love? | 15 |
| Soon it would die. | | | | |
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