Alice Meynell. Maternity. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Maternity

By Alice Meynell


ONE wept, whose only babe was dead,
New-born ten years ago.
“Weep not; he is in bliss,” they said.
She answered, “Even so.

“Ten years ago was born in pain	5
A child, not now forlorn;
But oh, ten years ago in vain
A mother, a mother was born.”