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

Drift

Helen Birch-Bartlett

From “A Line-a-day for Certain Lovers”

TWO hours….

And the sombre, long kiss of leave-taking.

Your eyes had accepted everything.

And you sank into the long, useless future,

While the present slowly disintegrated about us.