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

An Old Woman with Flowers

Agnes Lee

I LIKE to see the eager-faced old woman

Walking at sunset down the city street.

Always she holds against her heart with fervor

Her sprays of meadow-sweet.

She passes daily, and I never see her

Without the flowers she gathers to her so.

I do not know how destiny softens, hardens

The ways her feet must go,

Nor what her eyes forever are beholding

Beyond the sordid walls and grimy towers,

Nor what against her agèd heart she presses,

Pressing the meadow flowers.