| Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | | | Beauty | | By Louise Townsend Nicholl |
| | | WHY did you stop me, God, that day, | |
| Upon my rutted road of living? | |
| Why might I not have kept my way | |
| And never known your ruthless giving? | |
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| I should not walk so burdened now, | 5 |
| Nor be alone in this new land, | |
| If all there is of beauty in the world | |
| You had not pressed into my hand. | | | | |
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