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

The Silent Days

Yvor Winters

HERE men go

In and out of doors

And women stand—

Beneath dry trees

A child drifts and is still.

With brevity

Men break a bitter bread.

My books

Are fallen leaves—

I, unidentified,

As books passed by at will.