Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Rainy Days

Shirley Harvey

GRAY hills, gray clouds, gray faces at the pane,

Gray hearts that long for sunshine and blue skies,

The ceaseless rattle of the wind-born rain

Against bleak pavements! All the roadway lies

Sodden and glimmering with slow spreading streams

Storm-beaten into dullness and pale gray.

The hurrying footfall as it passes seems

Half deadened by the falling rain. Away

In the drab distance looms the murmuring town,

Cloaked in vague outline, misty and half seen;

Its own lights hanging over it like a crown,

Pale in the waning afternoon. How keen

The wind that moans away its chilling flight!

Gray days, gray hearts—gray hurrying down of night!