Ruth Hall. Quatrains. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Quatrains

By Ruth Hall


THE WOLF AT THE DOOR The Russian traveler in the story, lest
The wolf attack, casts out his precious store.
So we surrender all that we hold best,
To drive back him who clamors at the door.

THE ANNIVERSARY With no observance is my birthday set	5
From other times aside.
But once each year—would God I could forget!—
Comes back the night I died.