| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| A Girl’s Songs |
| | | Mary Carolyn Davies |
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BORROWER
I SING of sorrow, | |
| I sing of weeping. | |
| I have no sorrow. | |
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| I only borrow | |
| From some tomorrow | 5 |
| Where it lies sleeping, | |
| Enough of sorrow | |
| To sing of weeping. | |
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VINTAGE
Heartbreak that is too new | |
| Can not be used to make | 10 |
| Beauty that will startle; | |
| That takes an old heartbreak. | |
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| Old heartbreaks are old wine. | |
| Too new to pour is mine. | |
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THE KISS
Your kiss lies on my face | 15 |
| Like the first snow | |
| Upon a summer place. | |
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| Bewildered by that wonder, | |
| The grasses tremble under | |
| The thing they do not know. | 20 |
| I tremble even so. | |
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FREE
Over and over | |
| I tell the sky: | |
| I am free—I! | |
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| Over and over I tell the sea: | 25 |
| —I am free! | |
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| Over and over I tell my lover | |
| I am free, free! | |
| Over and over. | |
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| But when the night comes black and cold, | 30 |
| I who am young, with fear grow old; | |
| And I know, when the world is clear of sound, | |
| I am bound—bound. | |
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