Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Compensations

Carlyle F. McIntyre

YOU came with Judith’s flashing eye

And artlessness grown art.

Oh, most notorious perfidy!—

You took both head and heart.

Yet Time bore compensations sweet:

My age upon your youth

Is warm as Father Boaz’ feet

Upon the breasts of Ruth.