Jewell Bothwell Tull. Sum. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Sum

By Jewell Bothwell Tull


From “October” JUST when the year learns
What life is all about,
Just when she learns it’s not youth
Nor summer’s hot kisses
Nor even maternity,	5
Just when she knows
What it’s all for—
Winter and spring and summer,
The sum of it—October!

Next month you’ll be so gray and tired,	10
And then so still and white.
October!