| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | World beyond World | | By Arthur Davison Ficke |
| | | TWO mirrors, face to face, is all I need | |
| To build a mazy universe for my mind | |
| Where world grows out of world. I dizzily find | |
| Solace in endless planes that there recede. | |
| The fifth plane-world, soft-shimmering through the glass— | 5 |
| Surely it has a light more bland than ours. | |
| And in the far ninth hides a whirl of powers | |
| Unknown to our dull senses. I would pass | |
| Down the long vista, pausing now and then | |
| To taste the flavor of each separate sphere, | 10 |
| And with each vast perspective cool my eye. | |
| Whom should I meet there? Never living men! | |
| What should I love there? Nothing I hold dear! | |
| What would the end be? Endless as am I! | | | | |
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