Florence Ripley Mastin. Lucretia. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Lucretia

By Florence Ripley Mastin


From “School Room Sketches” YOUR beauty is as russet fruit,
Sun-warmed, fragrant,
In a northern room.

Down in your eyes I hear the young girls sing
In Toledo’s summer fields.	5
Your step is firm as though it trod the grape,
And your dark head is high as though you bore
To me a brimming gourd.