dots-menu
×

Home  »  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse  »  Amy Lowell

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

Aliens

Amy Lowell

From “Chalks: Black, Red, White”

THE CHATTER of little people

Breaks on my purpose

Like the water-drops which slowly wear the rocks to powder.

And while I laugh

My spirit crumbles at their teasing touch.