Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

A Voice Breaks in upon the Silence

Helen Louise Birch

SWIFTLY,

Secretly,

Silently,

Winding through some unsensed aerial channel,

With subtle solace and challenging, it comes—

Suddenly I know that it is there:

“Alert—Alert—Arise!”

Whatever the day bring forth, that will I greet—

Having drunk divinely, divinely, of the dawn!