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

The Bungler

Amy Lowell

YOU glow in my heart

Like the flames of uncounted candles.

But when I go to warm my hands,

My clumsiness overturns the light,

And then I stumble

Against the tables and chairs.