New books of poetry will be written New books and unheard of manuscripts will come wrapped in brown paper and many and many a time the postman will bow and sidle down the leaf-plastered steps thumbing over other men's business. But we ran ahead of it all. One coming after could have seen her footprints in the wet and followed us among the stark chestnuts. Anemones sprang where she pressed and cresses stood green in the slender source -- And new books of poetry will be written, leather-colored oakleaves many and many a time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ADOLF EICHMANN by HAYDEN CARRUTH GETTING A WORD IN by JAMES GALVIN THE LEAVES OF THE TREE HIDE THE SUN by DAVID IGNATOW CHAMBER MUSIC: 14 by JAMES JOYCE DOMESDAY BOOK: JANE FISHER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BUSINESS REVERSES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |