| Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | | | Sixteen | | By Edward Pickerill |
| | | LOVE is a very big thinga very great thing, mother; | |
| And I am afraid. | |
| I love youthat is what he said; | |
| But he looked away as he spoke, | |
| And he faltered when he kissed me. | 5 |
| Love is a very big thinga very great thing, mother; | |
| And I am afraid. | | | | |
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