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

A Gallant Woman

By Clara Shanafelt

SHE burst fierce wine

From the tough skin of pain,

Like wind that wrings from rigid skies

A scant and bitter gleam,

Long after the autumnal dusk

Has folded all the valleys in.