64. Apparitions by Alice Corbin. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

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

64. Apparitions

By Alice Corbin


I A THIN gray shadow on the edge of thought
Hiding its wounds:
These are the wounds of sorrow—
It was my hand that made them;
And this gray shadow that resembles you	5
Is my own heart, weeping …
You sleep quietly beneath the shade
Of willows in the south.

II When the cold dawn stood above the house-tops,
Too late I remembered the cry	10
In the night of a wild bird flying
Through the rain-filled sky.