| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Strange Tree | | By Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
| | From “Under the Tree”
AWAY beyond the Jarboe house | |
| I saw a different kind of tree. | |
| Its trunk was old and large and bent, | |
| And I could feel it look at me. | |
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| The road was going on and on | 5 |
| Beyond, to reach some other place. | |
| I saw a tree that looked at me, | |
| And yet it did not have a face. | |
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| It looked at me with all its limbs; | |
| It looked at me with all its bark. | 10 |
| The yellow wrinkles on its sides | |
| Were bent and dark. | |
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| And then I ran to get away, | |
| But when I stopped and turned to see, | |
| The tree was bending to the side | 15 |
| And leaning out to look at me. | | | | |
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