Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Belshazzar

Helen Birch-Bartlett

WE were walled about with sinister intentions,

And the hot, sweet summer day was suddenly alive

With quickening fears.

We knew …. but we shut them out,

As one shuts out the unbearable sunlight of the dawn.