| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Reverie | | By H. W. Stewart |
| | | THE DIM-LIT river mirrors skimming swallows | |
| Against the last of sunset’s fading gold, | |
| And twilight shadows brim the waiting hollows | |
| With quiet beauty that no words may hold. | |
| Across my mind—unconjured, undirected— | 5 |
| Travel desires and dreams like mirrored buds. | |
| Vague thought, and visions momently reflected, | |
| Evading all my clumsy nets of words. | |
| I am not indolent, but wherefore try | |
| To net these in a rhyme, only to shiver | 10 |
| The jewels with the mirror? Let them fly | |
| Like phantom swallows on the tranquil river, | |
| And fade as fast—they are more beautiful | |
| Than muddy stirrings on a troubled pool. | | | | |
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