140. Battle by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. The Housewife. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

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

140. Battle

The Housewife

By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson


SHE must go back, she said,
Because she’d not had time to make the bed.
We’d hurried her away
So roughly … and for all that we could say,
She broke from us, and passed	5
Into the night, she’d falling thick and fast.