| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Lost Kingdom | | By Ethel Talbot Scheffauer |
| | | IN the dead city where the waning moon | |
| Lights the strange faces of the carven kings | |
| With subtle smiles, and curiously each rune | |
| Upon the emeralds of their signet-rings | |
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| Paints with dull light—there upon each eyelid | 5 |
| The weary-footed Sleep sits sorrowful, | |
| And calm upon the painted pyramid | |
| The night-owl, with his blear eyes sad and dull | |
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| Keeps watch; and desert lions, hungry-eyed | |
| Prowl through the palaces all pale with gold | 10 |
| Under the moon; where, even as they died | |
| In some phantasmal ruin, centuries old, | |
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| Lie jewelled guards with golden scimitars | |
| And glorious women, wound with green and red, | |
| So beautiful and evil under the stars, | 15 |
| Not even the gray wolves rend them, fair and dead. | | | | |
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