| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | To a Child | | By Florence K. Mixter |
| | I YOU are my silent laughter; | |
| You are my unshed tears; | |
| You are the elfin wonder | |
| Of my ecstasy and fears. | |
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| You are my heart that dances; | 5 |
| You are my soul that leaps. | |
| You have hidden the key of the lonely room | |
| Where my troubled spirit sleeps. | |
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II Dear changeling, how I love your smile!— | |
| Fleet as a timid fawn | 10 |
| It breaks upon me suddenly | |
| And with a flash is gone. | |
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| It’s hardly like a smile at all, | |
| More like a blinding light | |
| That darts across the starless sky— | 15 |
| A fire-fly of the night. | | | | |
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