19. Song of the Souls Set Free by Walter Conrad Arensberg. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

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

19. Song of the Souls Set Free

By Walter Conrad Arensberg


WRAP the earth in cloudy weather
For a shroud.
We have slipped the earthly tether,
We’re above the cloud.
Peep and draw the cloud together,	5
Peep upon the bowed.

What can they be bowing under,
Wild and wan?
Peep, and draw the cloud asunder,
Peep, and wave a dawn.	10
It will make them rise and wonder
Whether we are gone.