Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Against the Sun

Helen Dudley

DARKNESS utter and absolute of the night

Hides from me the face and eyes

Of one who loved me in the light,

Obscures the violent leap of mind to mind

Into a stranger world—

Passion that seemed to bind,

Hides from me utterly what I have known,

The unquiet soul of one

Who captured joy with inward moan.

A ghost against the sun,

A shiver in the grass,

Dead memories that drift,

And pass, and pass.