Edmund Kemper Broadus. A Gargoyle on Notre Dame. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

A Gargoyle on Notre Dame

By Edmund Kemper Broadus


WITH angel’s wings and brutish-human form,
Weathered with centuries of sun and storm,
He crouches yonder on the gallery wall,
Monstrous, superb, indifferent, cynical:
And all the pulse of Paris cannot stir	5
Her one immutable philosopher.