Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Escape

Aline Kilmer

INDIFFERENCE may snare me, but only devotion can hold me.

Where is the net you spread in hope that its meshes might fold me?

Like a shadow I slipped through a web too slight to bind me:

Now, free and wise, I cast the last frail threads on the wind behind me.