Lola Ridge. Altitude. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Altitude

By Lola Ridge


I WONDER
How it would be here with you,
Where the wind
That has shaken off its dust in low valleys
Touches one cleanly	5
As with a new-washed hand,
And pain
Is as the remote hunger of droning things,
And anger
But a little silence	10
Sinking into the great silence.