Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Outcast

Louise Ayres Garnett

THE WATERS cast him out:

A toppled tower of ivory,

His naked body lies upon the sands—

Nameless,

Beautiful,

Unreachable.

Like a cloudy breath

The Seeking-thing within him

Has gone forth

To claim identity.

I cannot weep as I see him—

Beautiful,

Venturesome,

Stripped and free.