William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.
Spring Cowardice
I
I fear the trees and their mad, green moods.
The creeping arbutus beneath the leaves,
I stumble and fall at the voice of birds.
Think of the meadows of fierce-eyed flowers:
That buzz about me and dash and dart,
And the lilac waiting to break my heart!
I am a coward, a coward, I know!