Sarah-Margaret Brown. From a Chicago "L". Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

From a Chicago “L”

By Sarah-Margaret Brown


THE GREAT gray houses walk along
Sombrely and slow,
Weary in the dusk,
In a dragging row.
They are very tired,	5
Heart-broken and old;
They seem to shudder as they pass,
The winter wind is cold.