| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Cyclists | | By Amy Lowell |
| | | SPREAD on the roadway, | |
| With open-blown jackets | |
| Like black, soaring pinions, | |
| They swoop down the hill-side, | |
| The Cyclists. | 5 |
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| Seeming dark-plumaged | |
| Birds, after carrion, | |
| Careening and circling, | |
| Over the dying | |
| Of England. | 10 |
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| She lies with her bosom | |
| Beneath them, no longer | |
| The Dominant Mother, | |
| The Virile—but rotting | |
| Before time. | 15 |
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| The smell of her, tainted, | |
| Has bitten their nostrils. | |
| Exultant they hover, | |
| And shadow the sun with | |
| Foreboding. | 20 | | | |
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