| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Magnolia Gardens | | By Amy Lowell |
| | From “Southern April” Charleston, S. C.
IT was a disappointment, | |
| For I do not like magenta, | |
| And the garden was a fire of magenta | |
| Exploding like a bomb into the light-colored peace of a spring afternoon. | |
| Not wistaria dropping through Spanish moss, | 5 |
| Not cherokees sprinkling the tops of trees with moon-shaped stars, | |
| Not the little pricked-out blooms of banksia roses, | |
| Could quench the flare of raw magenta. | |
| Rubens women shaking the fatness of their bodies | |
| In an opulent egotism | 10 |
| Till the curves and colors of flesh | |
| Are nauseous to the sight, | |
| So this magenta. | |
| Hateful, | |
| Reeking with sensuality, | 15 |
| Bestial, obscene— | |
| I remember you as something to be forgotten. | |
| But I cherish the smooth sweep of the colorless river, | |
| And the thin, clear song of the red-winged blackbirds | |
| In the marsh-grasses on the opposite bank. | 20 | | | |
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