William Rose Benet. Information. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

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By William Rose Benét


From “Green and Gray” HE had green eyes, that excellent seer,
And little peaks to either ear.
He sat there, and I sat here.

He spoke of Egypt, and a white
Temple, against the star-strewn night.	5

He smiled with clicking teeth and said
That the dead were never dead;

Said old emperors hung like bats
In barns at night, or ran like rats—
But empresses came back as cats!	10