Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, Others and The Bookman Anthology of Verse and explore personal relationships, parenthood and modern life. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)
Chapters
1 Collectors 2 min 2 The Room Is As We Left It 1 min 3 Anticipation 1 min 4 Spring Day 1 min 5 Ennui 1 min 6 Let Me Play Net 1 min 7 The Last Ritual 1 min 8 Hands 1 min 9 Two Sonnets 2 min 10 Anodyne 1 min 11 Little Things 1 min 12 I Give Smiles 1 min 13 Without Words 1 min 14 High Dive 1 min 15 Marriage-caprice 2 min 16 Miserere 1 min 17 Kindness 1 min 18 We Have a Day 2 min 19 Spring Morning 1 min 20 Tonight 1 min 21 The Silence Stirs Again 1 min 22 The Night 1 min 23 I Would Pretend 1 min 24 Admonition 1 min 25 Frightened Face 1 min 26 Daily Prayer 1 min 27 L'Envoi 1 min 28 Your Sadness 1 min 29 Encounter 4 min 30 I Talk with Myself 1 min 31 Full-blown 1 min 32 The Gestures You Make 1 min 33 A Bride 1 min 34 Dialogue 1 min 35 Pitiful in Your Bravery 1 min 36 Boomerang 1 min 37 After These Days 2 min 38 Pastoral 1 min 39 In the Tropics 4 min 40 Two Liars 1 min 41 Pretty Penny 1 min 42 Growth 1 min 43 Portrait of a Friend 1 min 44 Story-teller 1 min 45 Penitent Wife 1 min 46 The Tragic Few 1 min 47 Tropical Pool 1 min 48 Prescience 1 min 49 What Have I Done? 1 min 50 Eight Months Old 1 min 51 A Dress for My Daughter 1 min 52 A Song to Sally 1 min 53 On Christmas 1 min 54 My Offerings 1 min 55 A God for You 1 min 56 Song of Summer 1 min 57 In This Room 3 min 58 Gift from the Empty-handed 1 min 59 Too Well I Know 1 min 60 Sand Picture 1 min 61 Flirt 1 min 62 Torch-bearers 1 min 63 For a Lady Pursued 1 min 64 Still Life 1 min 65 Captive 1 min 66 Last Migration 1 min 67 Protest 1 min 68 Bridges 1 min
