| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 265. Allegra Agonistes |
| | | By Grace Fallow Norton |
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| A GLEAM of gold in gloom and gray, | |
| A call from out a fairer day. | |
| O pang at heart and ebbing blood! | |
| (Hush, bread and salt should be thy mood, | |
| Stern woman of the Brotherhood.) | 5 |
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| Clamor of golden tones and tunes, | |
| Hunt of faint horns, breath of bassoons; | |
| They wound my soul again; I lie | |
| Face earthward in fresh agony. | |
| Oh, give me joy before I die! | 10 |
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| World, world, I could have danced for thee, | |
| And I had tales and minstrelsy; | |
| Kept fairer, I had been more good. | |
| (Hush, bread and salt should be thy mood, | |
| Soul of the breadless Brotherhood.) | 15 |
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| Some thou hast formed to play thy part, | |
| The bold, the cold, the hard of heart. | |
| Thy rue upon my lips I toss. | |
| Rose was my right. O world, the loss, | |
| When Greek limbs writhe upon the cross! | 20 |
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