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

The Housewife

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

SHE must go back, she said,

Because she’d not had time to make the bed.

We’d hurried her away

So roughly … and for all that we could say,

She broke from us, and passed

Into the night, she’d falling thick and fast.