Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | Augury | | Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
| | I. A HORSE-SHOE nailed, for luck, upon a mast; | |
| That mast, wave-bleached, upon the shore was cast! | |
| I saw, and thence no fetich I revered, | |
| But safe, through tempest, to my haven steered. | |
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II. The place with rose and myrtle was o’ergrown, | 5 |
| Yet Fear and Sorrow held it for their own. | |
| A garden then I sowed without one fear,— | |
| Sowed fennel, yet lived griefless all the year. | |
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III. Brave lines, long life, did my friend’s hand display. | |
| Not so mine own; yet mine is quick to-day. | 10 |
| Once more in his I read Fate’s idle jest, | |
| Then fold it down forever on his breast. | | | | |
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