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

Anguish

Doris Campbell

NOTHING can chain the days—

I have no time for dreams.

Stop these days, someone,

So I may stretch my white body.

Why do you chain them by sevens?

Why not by many hundreds?

I am irked at seeing them

Laid forever, neatly, in rows.

Be the day gray or blue,

You have named it.

Who calls that ball of fire the sun?