Arthur Davison Ficke. The Three Sisters. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Three Sisters

By Arthur Davison Ficke


GONE are the three, those sisters rare
With wonder-lips and eyes ashine.
One was wise and one was fair,
And one was mine.

Ye mourners, weave for the sleeping hair	5
Of only two, your ivy vine.
For one was wise and one was fair,
But one was mine.