NIGHT NOTE
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.