Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.

Theresa Helburn

Mother

I HAVE praised many loved ones in my song,

And yet I stand

Before her shrine, to whom all things belong,

With empty hand.

Perhaps the ripening future holds a time

For things unsaid;

Not now; men do not celebrate in rhyme

Their daily bread.