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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Anna Wickham1884–1947

Reality

ONLY a starveling singer seeks

The stuff of songs among the Greeks.

Juno is old,

Jove’s loves are cold;

Tales over-told.

By a new risen Attic stream

A mortal singer dreamed a dream.

Fixed he not Fancy’s habitation,

Nor set in bonds Imagination.

There are new waters, and a new Humanity.

For all old myths give us the dream to be.

We are outwearied with Persephone;

Rather than her, we’ll sing Reality.