Harriet Monroe

Poems (14)

• From the "Commemoration Ode"

  Washington / when dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, …

• In the Beginning

  When sunshine met the wave, / Then love was born; …

• Love Song

  I love my life, but not too well / To give it to thee like a flower, …

• Mountain Song

  I have not where to lay my head: / Upon my breast no child shall lie; …

• On the Porch

  As i lie roofed in, screened in, / From the pattering rain, …

• Pain

  She heard the children playing in the sun, / And through her window saw the white-stemmed trees …

• The Fortunate One

  Beside her ashen hearth she sate her down, / Whence he she loved had fled,— …

• The Hotel

  The long resounding marble corridors, the shining parlors with. shining women in them. / The French room, with its gilt and garlands under plump little tumbling painted Loves. …

• The Inner Silence

  Noises that strive to tear / Earth’s mantle soft of air …

• The Night-Blooming Cereus

  flower of the moon! / Still white is her brow whom we worshiped on earth long ago; …

• The Pine at Timber-Line

  What has bent you, / Warped and twisted you, …

• The Turbine

  Look at her—there she sits upon her throne / As ladylike and quiet as a nun! …

• The Water Ouzel

  Little brown surf-bather of the mountains! / Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters! …

• The Wonder of It

  How wild, how witch-like weird that life should be! / That the insensate rock dared dream of me, …