Poem-A-Day: Songs of a Girl by Mary Carolyn Davies

December 21, 2013 Songs of a Girl by Mary Carolyn Davies     I  Perhaps,  God, planting Eden, Dropped, by mistake, a seed In Time's neighbor-plot, That grew to be  This hour?   II  You and I picked up Life and looked at it curiously; We did not know whether to keep it for a plaything or not. It was beautiful to see, like a red firecracker, And we knew, too, that it was lighted.  We dropped it while the fuse was still burning ...   III  I am going to die too, flower, in a little while-- Do not be so proud.   IV  The sun is dying Alone  On an island In the bay.   Close your eyes, poppies-- I would not have you see death. You are so young!    V  The sun falls Like a drop of blood From some hero.   We, Who love pain, Delight in this.       Today's poem is in the public domain.  About This Poem "Songs of a Girl" appeared in 1917 in The New Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson, the editors of Poetry Magazine. Davies's poetry often explored gender, nature, and war. Poetry by Davies A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse (Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2011)   Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Mary Carolyn Davies was born in 1888 in Sprague, Washington.  She graduated from Washington High School in Portland in 1910 and spent a year teaching before enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley in 1911. During the 1920s, Davies's short stories and poems were published in Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McClure's, and Poetry, and in many anthologies. After moving to New York City in the 1930s, Davies published very little and reportedly lived in poverty until her death.   Related Poems Astigmatism by Amy Lowell Come Slowly--Eden (211) by Emily Dickinson  The Poster Girl's Defence by Carolyn Wells  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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