Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Device

Clara Shanafelt

FOR a proud poet

The bitter chrysanthemum

Untamed by frost,

Spending gold in bleak weather.

Mine shall be

A lean geranium in a pot

Climbing the cottage pane.

Old leaves yellow and drop off,

New green puts out.

I like it for the pungent scent it gives

When you bruise it.

Though lacking sun it may never afford

A scarlet flower.