Mary Carolyn Davies. I Pray You. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

I Pray You

By Mary Carolyn Davies


From “Wanderings” THE DEAD make rules, and I obey.
I, too, shall be dead some day.

Youth and maid who, past my death,
Have within your nostrils breath,

I pray you, for my own pain’s sake,	5
Break the rules that I shall make!