| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | In Recompense | | By Eda Lou Walton |
| | From “Beyond Sorrow”
NOW for the long years when I could not love you, | |
| I bring in recompense this gift of yearning— | |
| A luminous vase uplifted to the sun, | |
| Blue with the shadows of near-twilight. | |
| Here in its full round symmetry of darkness, | 5 |
| Burning with swift curved flashes bright as tears, | |
| I lift it to the lonely lips that knew | |
| Its slow creation, and the wheel of sorrow turning. | |
| Take it with hands like faded petals, | |
| White as the moonlight of our garden; | 10 |
| And for the long years when I could not love you | |
| Drink from its amber-colored night. | | | | |
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