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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936).  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.  1912–22.
 
The Silence
By Anna Wickham
 
WHEN I meet you, I greet you with a stare,
Like a poor shy child at a fair.
I will not let you love me—yet am I weak,
I love you so intensely that I cannot speak.
When you are gone I stand apart,        5
And whisper to your image in my heart.
 
 
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