| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Bark-bound | | By Agnes Lee |
| | From “Pictures of Women”
IN her home a woman I know | |
| Is a bark-bound tree; | |
| The flowers bloom at her feet, | |
| But she does not see. | |
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| The knife has glittered by | 5 |
| To the forest to prune, | |
| And left her deaf to the wind | |
| And blind to the moon. | |
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| She must live on her sap | |
| In her ease and dark, | 10 |
| Until she shrivels and dies | |
| In her walls of bark. | |
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| Unless the glittering knife | |
| Should return her way, | |
| And set its steel to the bark | 15 |
| And let in day. | | | | |
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