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

Foreboding

Moireen Fox

LIKE a black shadow silence has fallen around us:

There is no stir in the heather, the birds are hushed,

And in the sun’s eye the broad wings of a hawk.

Beloved, I have seen a sword-edged shadow between us;

I have heard the feet of one who brings death.