Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

The Term of Death

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919)

BETWEEN the falling leaf and rose-bud’s breath;

The bird’s forsaken nest and her new song

(And this is all the time there is for Death);

The worm and butterfly—it is not long!