| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Desire | | By Luella Stewart |
| | | For glad eternities | |
| I make no prayer….. | |
| Only to drown in your deep eyes | |
| (Eyes shy and strange, that haunt me night and day), | |
| Leap with the young blood laughing through your veins— | 5 |
| One, one with you, as dew finds at last the sea— | |
| Thus to the dark gods’ knees | |
| I bring my prayer! | |
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| For length of happy days | |
| I make no prayer….. | 10 |
| When ’mid the tumult of strange seas | |
| Or on a blood-red field beneath cold stars | |
| Into the dark your glad young soul is blown, | |
| One, one with you—I too, to the unknown goal— | |
| Thus to dark gods I raise | 15 |
| Ever my prayer! | | | | |
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