Max Michelson. The Newcomers. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Newcomers

By Max Michelson


From “May in the City” SPRING has come in the city;
And the sun and the rain,
And a thousand spirits swarming from God knows where,
Push the buried grasses
And pull them,	5
Calling: “Go out! jump out!”
And these little ones break through,
Wink at us and taunt:
“We are naked, fresh, and green,
And you are not!”	10