| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | G. H. Q., January, 1919 | | By Edmund Wilson, Jr. |
| | | REMEMBERING the flowers my mother’s hand uncloses | |
| Between her hedges spread with spiders’ laces— | |
| Narcissi pale and straight like April’s rain, | |
| The peony’s deep stain, | |
| Pansies with kittens’ faces | 5 |
| And summer roses, | |
| Whose yellow lingers from the summer dawn— | |
| Remembering how she loves the rabbits on the lawn: | |
| The barren desks and empty offices | |
| Where nothing wise is done | 10 |
| Had nearly slipped my mind, | |
| With all the deaf, the tongueless and the blind, | |
| Whose works and pupils thrive beneath the sun, | |
| Unlovely and unkind. | | | | |
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