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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Looking on

Leonora Speyer

I URGED my mind against my will:

My will shook like a rocking wall,

But did not fall;

My mind was like a wind-swept tree,

And neither knew the victory.

I dashed my mind against my will:

They did not break or bend or spill,

But in my heart the songs grew still.