Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe (* 1860 in Chicago; † 1936) war eine US-amerikanische Dichterin und Literaturkritikerin.
Best-known poems
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The Pine at Timber-Line
What has bent you,
Warped and twisted you,
Torn and crippled you?— …
All poems (15)
- A FarewellGood-by: nay, do not grieve that it is over—
- From the "Commemoration Ode"Washington
- In the BeginningWhen sunshine met the wave,
- Love SongI love my life, but not too well
- Mountain SongI have not where to lay my head:
- On the PorchAs i lie roofed in, screened in,
- PainShe heard the children playing in the sun,
- The Fortunate OneBeside her ashen hearth she sate her down,
- The HotelThe long resounding marble corridors, the shining parlors with. shining women in them.
- The Inner SilenceNoises that strive to tear
- The Night-Blooming Cereusflower of the moon!
- The Pine at Timber-LineWhat has bent you,
- The TurbineLook at her—there she sits upon her throne
- The Water OuzelLittle brown surf-bather of the mountains!
- The Wonder of ItHow wild, how witch-like weird that life should be!