Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

The Ghouls

Elizabeth J. Coatsworth

ALL day the long cold fingers of the rain

Have pried at the gray tiles above the graves,

Finishing the work of years in the drear fields

Where coffins lie uncovered in the light

Of sulphurous mustard blooms. Here by the bank

The greedy water has uncovered bones

Shining, blue-white, wet in the biting wind.