119. The Movies by Florence Kiper Frank. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

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

119. The Movies

By Florence Kiper Frank


SHE knows a cheap release
From worry and from pain—
The cowboys spur their horses
Over the unending plain.

The tenement rooms are small;	5
Their walls press on the brain.
Oh, the dip of the galloping horses
On the limitless, wind-swept plain!