| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Premonitions | | By Helen Birch-Bartlett |
| | From “A Line-a-day for Certain Lovers”
CLOUD upon cloud of mist, | |
| Fog clouds, | |
| And curtains of rain. | |
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| Oh, the glistening world that lay last night | |
| Beyond the narrow and indrawing circle | 5 |
| Of this grey morning’s vision! | |
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| I fear some secret chemistry at work | |
| Among these shifting shrouds, | |
| That stir and move repulsively, | |
| Like dank old water weeds | 10 |
| In an old and stagnant pond. | |
| These dim cloud-walls may well conceal | |
| Some darker crown | |
| Than the pool’s white crown of fire-flies. | |
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| Have you no delicately colored words, | 15 |
| Does your hand possess no new grace, | |
| Your eyes no cunning, | |
| To lure away this fantasy? | |
| Your eyes…. | |
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| Your eyes! | 20 | | | |
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