Gretchen Warren. The Wild Bird. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

The Wild Bird

By Gretchen Warren


LIKE silence of a starlit sky,
Like wild birds rising into night,
Such was her dying, such her flight
Into eternity.

But I, who dwell with memory,	5
Dream in my grief that she may soar
Too high, and needing love no more
Come nevermore to me.