Dorothy Butts. A Vanity. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

A Vanity

By Dorothy Butts


From “The Passers-by” IT is a vanity to make
The little waves on my small lake
Speak from their “deep spring depths.”
What can they have to say,
Blown down the winking bay	5
The first half of the day,
Blown back all afternoon?
See—in the early moon,
Wind-driven home, they leap
And scramble on the shore—	10
And sleep.