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

Not in the Whirlwind

Karle Wilson Baker

DO I speak soft and little—

Do I offer you a drop of honey in a bent brown leaf?

Yet I too have been rent by the whirlwind:

I have lain trembling under its bellowings;

I have endured its fangs;

I have heard it hiss and groan, “Bitterness, bitterness!”

But all I have left,

After its searchings and its rendings,

May be told in a soft voice

And is sweet—

Sweet,

Like a drop of thick honey in a bent brown leaf.