Marjorie Allen Seiffert. To a Poet. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

To a Poet

By Marjorie Allen Seiffert


STRANGELY you say
The uttermost life has for you
In your own day
Blossoms and dies—there can ensue
No further power,	5
Longing, achievement, or unrest,
Beyond the hour
Earth takes your body to her breast.

So you devise
A diamond immortality,	10
And crystallize
Your soul in metric jewellery.
Well, let it shine,
Quaint relic of a past which lingers.
Children of mine	15
May touch it with warm, living fingers!