Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
An Old Woman with FlowersAgnes Lee
From “Pictures of Women”
I
Walking at sunset down the city street.
Always she holds against her heart with fervor
Her sprays of meadow-sweet.
Without the flowers she gathers to her so.
I do not know how destiny softens, hardens
The ways her feet must go,
Beyond the sordid walls and grimy towers,
Nor what against her agèd heart she presses,
Pressing the meadow flowers.