| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Drouth | | By Genevieve Taggard |
| | From “The Way Things Go”
YOU cannot persuade us to stand lovely and unseasonal, | |
| Perpetual spring and perpetual winter | |
| Forever drifting petals across the picture of your existence. | |
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| Frames we can never be for the miniature of your days; | |
| Nor can we decorate your sky | 5 |
| With a single branch of us chosen for the dashed loveliness you prefer. | |
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| Nor can we die, petal by petal by petal, | |
| Across thirty years, as you would have us, | |
| Decorating by our death | |
| The design of your days. | 10 | | | |
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