A little moon was restless in Eternity
And, shivering beneath the stars,
Dropped in the hiding arms of the western hill.
Night’s discord ceased:
The visible universe moved in an endless rhythm:
The wheel of the heavens turned to the pulse of a cricket in the grass.
_Alice Corbin_
Alice Corbin (Mrs. William Penhallow Henderson) was born in St.
Louis, Missouri. She has been Associate Editor of _Poetry; A
Magazine of Verse_ since 1912, co-editing (with Harriet Monroe) _The
New Poetry, An Anthology_ (1917). Since 1916 she has lived in New
Mexico.
_The Spinning Woman of the Sky_ (1912) contains few hints of
originality. It is cast in an entirely different key than Miss
Corbin’s later efforts. Her recent verses, many of them uncollected,
are much richer; they reveal a close contact with primitive people
and native folk-lore. Her southern and far western sketches are
particularly colorful; a volume of New Mexico studies, _Red Earth_
(1920), being full of noteworthy and sympathetic records.