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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
Convention, Agnes Lee
The snow is lying very deep.
My house is sheltered from the blast.
I hear each muffled step outside,
I hear each voice go past.
But I’ll not venture in the drift
Out of this bright security,
Till enough footsteps come and go
To make a path for me.
Lee (1862-1939) was a daughter of the Rand of Chicago-based map publisher Rand McNally. She was older than most of these early 20th century female poets—her first collection was published in 1889—but she successfully transitioned into the Modernist period and was a frequent contributor to Poetry in its first two decades. This is from her 1922 collection Faces and Open Doors. Neither of her two husbands was a writer (photographer and surgeon, respectively).
---L.
Subject quote from The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe.
Convention, Agnes Lee
The snow is lying very deep.
My house is sheltered from the blast.
I hear each muffled step outside,
I hear each voice go past.
But I’ll not venture in the drift
Out of this bright security,
Till enough footsteps come and go
To make a path for me.
Lee (1862-1939) was a daughter of the Rand of Chicago-based map publisher Rand McNally. She was older than most of these early 20th century female poets—her first collection was published in 1889—but she successfully transitioned into the Modernist period and was a frequent contributor to Poetry in its first two decades. This is from her 1922 collection Faces and Open Doors. Neither of her two husbands was a writer (photographer and surgeon, respectively).
---L.
Subject quote from The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe.