Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

The Alien

C. Cunningham

MISSISSIPPI, you mothered me when the child in me was young;

You taught me the song of the soothing waves, the current’s cooing tongue;

You laughed with me when my heart leaped high, you told how a grief is borne:

The world away from your shining smile is a strange world, half forlorn,

And the old child in me yearns for you—the strength of your steady flow—

With a longing only the river-born, your wandering children, know.