Louise Redfield. After Fever. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

After Fever

By Louise Redfield


THERE is a singing that is everywhere:
Waves of a sea that washes in my head—
The shoreless sea that roars inside a shell;
Blurred ringing of a distant drowsy bell;
Clamor of fairy festival, or fair.	5
But for the iron of this featherbed,
I should float into places thin and far,
And like a bubble pricked against a star,
Die in a trail of iridescent air.