Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. The Housewife. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Housewife

By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson


From “Battle” SHE must go back, she said,
Because she’d not had time to make the bed.
We’d hurried her away
So roughly … and for all that we could say,
She broke from us, and passed	5
Into the night, she’d falling thick and fast.