| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Topaz of the Sixties | | By Marsden Hartley |
| | From “Sunlight Persuasions”
IN the little tired spring, | |
| Weary with the years of bubbling, | |
| Deep down to where the gold sand comes to light | |
| Again, | |
| I see wreaths and wreaths of smiles. | 5 |
| “L’amour quand-même!”— | |
| The gold bird in the cage exclaims. | |
| “L’amour quand-même!”—reiterates the lark | |
| To the dahlias and the petunia buds | |
| In the garden. | 10 |
| “L’amour—quand-même!” | |
| Sings the nightingale in the plum-boughs, | |
| Where the clematis shuts the window in | |
| With fragrant fringe. | |
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| Once it was a precious stone— | 15 |
| Long, long, ago. | | | | |
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