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

The Locust

Leonora Speyer

YOUR hot voice sizzles from some cool tree near-by:

You seem to burn your way through the air

Like a small, pointed flame of sound,

Sharpened on the ecstatic edge of sun-beams!