Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

The Roof-garden

Mabel Barker Huddleston

SINCE I lost my ancient wealth

These are they that have nourished my life

In this grotesque, grey desert of the town:

The leaping up of flame;

The widening of the sky at the corner of the street;

The soft renewals of steam at the funnel’s lip,

Rising, coiling, dissolving;

White flowers of the roofs

That in unfolding vanish.