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

Snow Morning

Hilda Conkling

From “Song Nets”

  • Song nets,
  • I weave you with all my love.
  • You glitter like pearls and rubies,
  • In you I catch songs like butterflies.
  • You go past my reaching hand
  • With a thin gauzy floating,
  • And the songs are caught
  • Before they fade away.
  • Last night
  • My hand caught a song
  • Of pines and quiet rivers:
  • I shall keep it forever.

  • MORNING is a picture again,

    With snow-puffed branches

    Out of the wind;

    With the sky caught like a blue feather

    In the butternut tree.

    I cannot see the world behind the snow;

    But when I look into my mind,

    There, with all its people and colors,

    The world sits smiling

    Quite warm and cosy.