| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Island | | By Robert Alden Sanborn |
| | | UPON a silent island | |
| In your bosom I am shut. | |
| I wandered on the island | |
| In a pale noon, and a hut | |
| I found within the island | 5 |
| Dusk of willow, elm and fern— | |
| Alone amid the island, | |
| A shadow in an urn. | |
| It is a fairy island— | |
| I never shall escape | 10 |
| Until the willowed island | |
| Shall change its wistful shape; | |
| Until the urn shall shatter, | |
| And the shadow slake | |
| The frail wish of the sleeper, | 15 |
| And she shall wake. | |
| I dare not stir the island | |
| Silence with a happy word; | |
| I dread to shake the island | |
| With a plea that may be heard; | 20 |
| So in sleep I keep the island, | |
| Mate its dream with one mine own, | |
| Lest into life the island break, | |
| And leave me all alone. | | | | |
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