Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Illusion

Amy Lowell

WALKING beside the tree-peonies,

I saw a beetle

Whose wings were of black lacquer spotted with milk.

I would have caught it,

But it ran from me swiftly

And hid under the stone lotus

Which supports the Statue of Buddha.