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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Fear

Evelyn Scott

MY soul leaps up at a sound.

What is the question I cannot answer,

That must be answered?

What is the blank face I must fill in with features?

My brain pulls, stretches, tears;

But I cannot open wide enough to see!

Always at the agonized point of conception,

But never conceiving.

Always giving birth,

But never born!

What is it I am to conceive?

To what must I give birth?