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

Rain-prayer

Alice Corbin

From “Candle-light and Sun”

A BROKEN ploughed field

In the driving rain,

Rain driven slant-wise

Over the plain.

I long for the rain,

The dull long rain,

For farmlands and ploughlands

And cornlands again.

O grey broken skies,

You were part of my pain!