Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

The Bringers of Gifts

Helen Birch-Bartlett

HIGH above the city

We stood, and watched the boats upon the river.

You had your dreams….

But the deeper peace that I knew at last

Was not in your eyes’ grey depths.

From the cup of my hands

You drank but the remembrance of sorrow;

I knew but the fragrance of your spirit

When the censer

Lay broken at my feet.

Above the city

We watched the life of the river.

We saw the lights appear….