| Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | | | Drift | | By Helen Birch-Bartlett |
| | From A Line-a-day for Certain Lovers TWO hours
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| And the sombre, long kiss of leave-taking. | |
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| Your eyes had accepted everything. | |
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| And you sank into the long, useless future, | |
| While the present slowly disintegrated about us. | 5 | | | |
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