Leonora Speyer. At the Hospital for the Insane. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

At the Hospital for the Insane

By Leonora Speyer


From “Reflections” THEY said to me: “We are not crazy, dear!
But they are mad … and so they keep us here.”

I thought: “We are all mad!—in this walled place,
And out beyond, and through all time and space;
Save he who looks his madness in the face!”	5