In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Birthday Sonnet. " Untermeyer also praised the sonnets but added: "The other poems share this intensity.

"She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious sensuous poetry. Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7 1885 – December 16 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s.