| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| The Narrow Doors |
| | | Fannie Stearns Davis |
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| THE WIDE DOOR into Sorrow | |
| Stands open night and day. | |
| With head held high and dancing feet | |
| I pass it on my way. | |
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| I never tread within it, | 5 |
| I never turn to see | |
| The Wide Door into Sorrow. | |
| It cannot frighten me. | |
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| The Narrow Doors to Sorrow | |
| Are secret, still, and low: | 10 |
| Swift tongues of dusk that spoil the sun | |
| Before I even know. | |
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| My dancing feet are frozen. | |
| I stare. I can but see. | |
| The Narrow Doors to Sorrow | 15 |
| They stop the heart in me. | |
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| —Oh, stranger than my midnights | |
| Of loneliness and strife | |
| The Doors that let the dark leap in | |
| Across my sunny life! | 20 |
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