Alice Brown. Vision. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Vision

By Alice Brown


MOTHER, I have come home to you
Out of my sore distress.
Mother, how beautiful you are
In your dull working dress!

“Then if you see me so, dear child,”	5
I heard my mother say,
“See, too, the beauty of the soul
In her worn dress of clay.”