Genevieve Taggard. Saturday Afternoon. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Saturday Afternoon

By Genevieve Taggard


From “The Way Things Go” OH, if my soul were lifted like a tree
Up from the little stones that lie on me!
If I could stand
Still on the hill and never move my hand;
No, never beckon, no, nor wave my dress,	5
But only wait in heavy breathlessness—
Just stand
Still on the hill and never move my hand—
He might come up for balm; he might go down,
Careless and comforted, to town.	10