Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Men-folks

Helen Hoyt

WHEN I look at men, sometimes—

I can hardly tell how it is—

But when I see them,

Walking about,

Doing things,

Talking and planning,

So busy, so serious—

(Only children could be,

Only children,

So serious!)—

A feeling comes over me as if I were God,

And looked forth from a great distance

On all the humanness of the earth,

Compassionately.