Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
The MomentFlorence Kiper Frank
From “New Life”
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Where all night long I lay in a rhythm of agony,
Horrible hell-rhythm of birth-giving!
Pain …
A gasping cessation …
Pain….
………
How I loathe the white nurses!
Yet they too are women,
They too … are women …
I should be sorry … for women…