| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| Faces |
| | | Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer |
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| FOUR faces in the dark, | |
| Eight eyes aglow | |
| With the pale lunar spark | |
| Fireflies do show. | |
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| Four brows, specter-white, | 5 |
| Crowned with lambent hair;— | |
| Only in the blackest night | |
| Are these things there. | |
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| Eight lips that question me, | |
| Moving to and fro; | 10 |
| Quiet as shadows be | |
| On new-fallen snow. | |
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| Eight hands beckoning, | |
| Spindrift of the wind;— | |
| Past all mortal reckoning | 15 |
| Are phantoms of the mind. | |
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| Deep, return to deep again, | |
| And old dreams fade. | |
| Children, let me sleep again, | |
Calm and unafraid.
The Outlook | 20 |
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