Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
The Lean Gray RatsSkipwith Cannéll
From “Songs of Hunger”
T
Have gnawed my soul in twain;
Till cursing the God that made it,
The good half died in pain.
Waxed brutal and strong and fat;
But the good half died and was eaten
In hell by a lean, gray rat.